Word: gradualness
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...left few firms untouched, none seemed more battered last week than Apple, the company whose founders began by tinkering with a circuit board in a California garage and went on to live a new version of the American dream. Among the problems that now plague the manufacturer are the gradual aging of its mainstay Apple II home computer and the recent failure of its Macintosh model to make much headway in the office market...
Akhnaten is the third of Glass's trilogy of operas about remarkable men. A musically luminous treatment of the rise and fall of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh some consider history's first monotheist, it unfolds in gradual waves to reveal two particularly striking moments: a ravishing trio for Akhnaten (a countertenor), his mother and his wife in the first act; and Akhnaten's glorious hymn to the sun disk in Act II. The prevailing mood, though, is dark and brooding, emphasized by Glass's use of an orchestra without violins. Rich in detail and sharp in characterization, Akhnaten...
...liners and urging greater work discipline, when they were asked to digest another, more jarring piece of news: a sweeping crackdown on a national pastime -- drinking. The decree raises the drinking age from 18 to 21, delays the daily opening of liquor stores by three hours, calls for a gradual cut in vodka production and an eventual ban on port, which the Soviets consume in huge quantities. The measure also prescribes harsh penalties for drunken driving, drinking in public, serving alcohol to minors and brewing moonshine...
Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping has long been pushing for a transfusion of younger blood into the ranks of his country's aging leadership. Now Peking appears to have taken a major step in the gradual switch to a new generation. The People's Daily reported last week that nearly 1,000 "young and dependable cadres" had been selected as reserve leaders at provincial and ministerial levels and more than 10,000 others had been chosen for lesser positions in prefectures, cities and other government departments...
Several researchers rushed forth to deny any extraterrestrial origins for the iridium, attributing it first to a gradual process of sedimentation that concentrated the metal. Later an old favorite was proposed--volcanic eruptions, which might have forced iridium from the mantle to the surface. The most recent naysayers are Dartmouth Geologists Charles Officer and Charles Drake, who reported in Science on their studies of two other telltale elements in the clay boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. They found that the levels of arsenic and antimony correspond to decidedly terrestrial, not cosmic, concentrations...