Word: gradualness
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...announce a package of unprecedented reforms, and expectations were high. Instead of demonstrating flexibility, however, Botha delivered a finger-wagging sermon that warned foreign governments not to "push us too far." His intransigence only hardened demands for bold reforms. Whereas many critics were disposed in August to consider a gradual easing of apartheid, by last week, as Botha's state of emergency entered its twelfth week and two more blacks were killed by riot police, they seemed unwilling to embrace reforms that fell shy of a total renunciation of all racialistic policies...
...best the gradual devaluation that the U.S. wants to bring about would take a long time to work. Export prices would not drop, nor import prices rise, immediately. When they did, sales would not respond overnight. Some economists believe that 18 months or more would pass before the trade deficit came down markedly--and protectionists in Congress are hardly in any mood to wait that long. Accordingly, Reagan set out last week to convince them that their bitter complaints about unfair foreign trade practices have been heard and are getting action...
Despite Reagan's high standing with some identifiable Democrats, the survey did not find that the gradual increase in the number of voters who think of themselves as Republicans came from any particular age or economic group. However, it found that more than half of the voters now say they support candidates from the two parties about equally. Democrats hold the edge among those who continue to vote straight tickets. But with such a large potential swing vote, the study found, the real loyalty gap between the parties is even smaller than the 13% spread indicated by the voter-identification...
Botha: Yeah, you're probably right. It's just all this unrest makes me want to rest all the more. Maybe Ron will invite me to the ranch. We could soak in some rays, sip tropical drinks and talk about reforming this country in a gradual way. It seems so strange to me that all these chaps are so angry...
Over the longer term, the most important result of last week's vote may unfold not in Nicaragua but in Washington: the politics of gradual consensus. A solid majority in Congress now agrees that the U.S. must pressure the Sandinista regime for change, but not by attempting to overthrow it illegally. In a debate that has dragged on as long as Ronald Reagan's presidency, reaching that agreement is no small accomplishment...