Word: step-by-step
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...Viet Nam, Moscow is scaling back its costly involvement in cold war commitments. -- Invading guerrillas, an angry South Africa and ineffectual U.N. peacekeepers threaten Namibia's future. -- After 14 years of civil war, is Lebanon at the point of no return? -- In dealing with Israel, the U.S. tries a step-by-step approach...
...step-by-step approach, letting neither conservatives or radicals know what changes lie ahead; and "blitzkrieg" tactics to get individual reforms through. "The proposed reform is drafted in relative secrecy; ....and then, at the appropriate moment, it is dramatically unveiled...and the reform enacted quickly before its opponents can effectively mobilize...
...that really is rich, coming from a character who is completely at ease gabbing about his wife's gynecological problems, body dumps in Central America and the step-by-step procedure of killing a man in the gas chamber...
...progress made and nail down the remaining problems," said Shultz. The Secretary presented Shevardnadze with the specific wording of U.S. proposals for sharp cutbacks in intermediate-range missiles and their elimination in Europe, a 50% reduction in strategic missiles, a phase-out of underground nuclear testing through a step-by-step process, and a ten-year renunciation of the U.S.'s right to withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty restricting space-based defenses. "We asked them to reconfirm their statements at Reykjavik," said a U.S. participant. "But they wouldn't even do that. We just went round...
...Since then," Reagan said in his hastily arranged 12-minute speech, "the dialogue has continued, and step-by-step progress continues to be made...