Word: step-by-step
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...plan is spelled out in one of four unpublished chapters of the manuscript, bought several months ago at an auction of Alex Haley's estate by a Detroit lawyer, Gregory J. Reed. In a chapter titled "20 Millions" (referring to the number of blacks in America), Malcolm sketches a step-by-step program for establishing black schools, libraries and banks. "For the first time, the White man would see the Black man as a man," writes Malcolm. "Producing what he wants. And buying what he needs." Reed might release the more than 200 pages of unpublished material...
...While a step-by-step, managed transition is to be encouraged, it is not necessarily to be expected. As Gorbachev himself inadvertently demonstrated, reform communism is an oxymoron. The Chinese Communists may ultimately learn the same truth, even though they bought the system some time with blood on Tiananmen Square. The late Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, a great friend of the Great Leader, provided a corollary: the more retrograde and repressive the regime, the more violent its fall. Its strength is brittle; it will not bend, but it will break. Open the door to a country like North...
McNamara concludes by recommending that the U.N. help developing countries establish step-by-step, long-range programs, financed with the assistance of the World Bank, for coming as close as possible to zero population growth...
...probably the best he can offer the Lithuanians. It is also probably the most they can get from him, or from any Kremlin leader. By sticking to their unilateral declaration of independence, they risk everything, not just for themselves but for the more cool-headed Estonians, whose adroit step-by-step approach toward the same goal has a far greater chance of success...
East German authorities have rejected the idea of adopting a complete free-market system and new Premier Hans Modrow, a leading reformer, says he wants "step-by-step" economic changes...