Word: gradualness
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...Vancouver's Main Street?an artery running from Chinatown toward South Vancouver?marked the boundary between the city's smarter West Side and the rough-and-ready section known as East Van. How times have changed. Successive waves of artists, media types and other loft dwellers kicked off a gradual process of gentrification; the day young families started infiltrating its neighborhoods, East Van's journey to respectability was complete. One knock-on effect of this has been the tidying up of Main Street itself. Caf?s and galleries have mushroomed there; so have boutiques?particularly around 21st and Main. Now branded...
...surprising that the idea behind BiDil--the first drug approved for a specific race--has been controversial from the start. The drug is actually a combination of two older, generic medicines. When it was first tested on the general population as a treatment for congestive heart failure--a gradual weakening of the heart--the FDA ruled that the results were not statistically significant. It was only when the drug was retested on patients who identified themselves as African Americans that tangible benefits emerged: a 43% reduction in the death rate and a 39% reduction in hospitalizations...
...scholar or a Marxist theoretician. Nor does he possess the studied mandarin sophistication of the late Premier Chou En-lai, another longtime comrade-in-arms. Not that Deng lacks for a keen intelligence or a world view. But what he has consistently sought to impose is a preference for gradual rather than sudden change and for pragmatism over doctrine. In discussing China's second revolution recently, Deng said, "If it could enable people to improve their lives gradually, then I think the policy itself is a sure guarantee of its continuity...
...score is the work of a master. The irresistible Doretta's Dream, the opera's most famous aria, is sung first by the poet Prunier, a sadder, wiser Rodolfo, whose prominence at the opera's beginning sets the tone for what is to come. The gradual transformation of the lovers' duet into a full-blown chorus in the second act is a magical lyric moment. There is even wit: a sly quote from Richard Strauss's Salome when Prunier describes his ideal woman, and a love duet that deliberately recalls the end of the first act of La Boh?...
...companies and make those risks more unpredictable. But, as consumer advocates point out, they do not explain the full story. The legal doctrines in question have been evolving for many years. The rise in the number of personal-injury lawsuits and the size of jury awards has also been gradual. But apart from medical malpractice insurance, which has been a headache for both doctors and insurers for at least a decade, it is only in the past two years that liability premiums have exploded and policies have been canceled wholesale...