Word: incrementally
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...dead man had wished to be cremated, and the increment scattered to the winds...
...women of New York City, whose population then reached 3,000,000 for the first time in the community's history, gave birth to more than 100,000 children in a single year. That great increment continued year after year, but in recent years the birthrate (36.4 per 1,000 in 1898) dropped steadily until last year, for a total population of 7,400,000, it was down to 13.4. It was down that low, not only because the adult population has grown out of earlier proportion but because, for the first time in 39 years, births numbered less...
...this winter started some second thought in its councils, which led to the dismissal of the agency. This public pillory of one company must be impelling the others to reconsider the wisdom of bossing the workmen by fear and distrust, for the cost of spies is great and the increment from their use is disastrous. If it is important that the executives know what labor is up to, better systems can be devised to find out; many factories have them already. The half million dollars a year that, for example, General Motors spent on detectives bred some of the hostility...
Some Climax stockholders must have been completely mystified by the fact that total assets increased during the year from less than $8,000,000 to more than $79,000,000. Furthermore, the entire increase was accounted for in an item called "Discovered Increment." Little light was shed on the subject by a footnote explaining that "Discovered Increment" had been revalued by application of the "Hoskold Formula." What happened was that Climax simply wrote up its ore reserves by some $70,000,000. Formerly carried at what amounted to a nominal $3,600,000, the Climax reserves are by all odds...
...goers have arrived at a state of sophistication which prevents them from regarding illicit love as shocking. Ibsen's fight in "Ghosts" was against convention and the rigid moral code of his time which resolved life into "duty and obligation" and left happiness as a sort of rare unearned increment. The age-old moral and social laws which press upon the young, forcing them to accept destiny instead of fighting it, the incessant pressure of conservative institutions such as home and the church, these are the ghosts which Ibsen is trying to lay. The technical and literary genius...