Word: incrementalism
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...increment in funding demonstrates the president’s true worry about the problem. Since mid-2003 outbreaks of bird flu have occurred in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Laos. And, of 112 laboratory-confirmed cases in humans, 57 people died from the disease. With no known capacity of person-to-person transmission, human cases of the virus have been relatively isolated, but the Indonesian Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, warned of more possible victims in her country and forewarned the change to a humanly transmittable strain is “just a matter of time...
...viewers, the drama was heightened by an amazing rainbow of colors instantaneously shading each 10-yard increment. Stover's conversion percentages, or stats on how well he has kicked from different yard lines, flashed on the screen--92% success inside the 10-yard line (the red zone), 98% between the 10 and 20 (orange), 89% between the 20 and 30 (yellow), and 69% between the 30 and 40 (blue). For Jets fans, it looked like the terrorism-alert matrix. Moments later, Stover nailed a 42-yarder from the blue zone (the end zone adds 10 yards to the distance), giving...
...Does any of this help? Sports scientists and some coaches concede that such breakthroughs may make only a small improvement in performance?but that can be a critical increment. "It's 5%, max," says Dr. Gordon Sleivert, director of sports science and medicine at the PacificSport Canadian Sport Center in Victoria. "But 1% might make the difference between a gold medal and eighth place...
...that allowed a growing number of employees to work faster and smarter--a process that economists call capital deepening. But "as the investment boom goes bust," says William Dudley, chief U.S. economist for Goldman Sachs, "there is going to be less capital per worker, and you will lose that increment in productivity...
Each of the six athletes failed on her first two attempts, and Akron's Mary Varga, who had been perfect before the latest increment, was in good shape to take home the national title...