Word: gradualness
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Critics, while welcoming the time limit and its suggestion of a gradual phase-out of all affirmative action programs in admissions—not just those ruled out in Gratz—were similarly unsure about where the ruling and its sunset clause would lead...
...smaller and we have to treat all our resources with more care," says Patricia Forkan, executive vice president of the Humane Society International. But the so-called Berlin Initiative infuriates as many as it pleases. Pro-whaling nations, led by Japan, Iceland and Norway, decry the IWC's gradual transformation from a small forum of whaling nations founded in 1946 to a 51-member, broad-based organization. "The IWC was set up for whaling," says Stefan Asmundsson, head of the commission's Icelandic delegation. "It's very clear that conservation is part of it, but conservation is there to ensure...
...what he wants to be too - but not the overnight variety. "I want people to think I'm an interesting actor," says the intriguing guy du jour. "I just hope they slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly discover that over the next 10 years." It may be too late for a gradual buildup. He has already made an impression on Hollywood. A featured role in "Black Hawk Down" led to "The Hulk." Now he is shooting Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy", in which he plays Hector to Brad Pitt's Achilles - and that role could make Bana next year's June pinup...
...beginning, curricular change was a slow, gradual process, often the accidental result of a changing student body and environment...
...Senior Baathists who have eluded capture reportedly have access to significant amounts of cash that could help fuel an insurgency, and there's considerable hostility towards U.S. forces among the local population in the predominantly Sunni areas north and west of the capital. U.S. officials are hoping that the gradual restoring services and normality will blunt the anger - and they're planning to beef up their military presence in some of the areas where they've been attacked...