Word: gradualness
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Cisneros, who received his master’s in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government in 1973, stressed the importance of facilitating the gradual movement of individuals and families towards the ultimate goal of home ownership...
Nevertheless, he stipulated that the allocation of responsibility to residents should be a gradual one. Moreover, he emphasized the importance of residents collaborating closely with the senior attending physician in “educated communication” to arrive at the correct choice for patient care...
...political solution in Iraq--which is presumably the alternative--would require the gradual but steady transfer of authority to the Governing Council; a new constitution; the establishment of honest police, legal and bureaucratic authorities; and, in time, elections. It would mean, in short, the undramatic ability to use the good offices of outsiders--the U.N., aid agencies, nongovernmental organizations--to help Iraqis weave together a new society...
...ought never leave the decision to the individual physician when we come to the two redlines: no assistance in self-destruction (whether gradual or immediate) and no assistance in mutilation...
...those who convert to other religions, and although the penalty is not binding in most Muslim-majority states, persecution is common. This alone would not retard missions work. Most evangelists accept it as a cost of sharing faith. What did slow their efforts was a more prosaic measure: the gradual elimination by most Muslim countries of professional "religious worker" visas. Established organizations built around salaried missionary lifers found themselves hamstrung...