Word: step-by-step
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...Semiconductor also is turning out a completely computerized system, and so far has sold 45. The other two rivals are Sweda and NCR, which enjoy the advantage of having made cash registers for years. Both companies are concentrating on automated check-out equipment that can be bought on a step-by-step basis: first the cash register and later the electronic scanner and minicomputer. Sweda has installed only 32 fully automated systems so far, but it has electronic registers in 400 stores that it considers prime customers for add-on equipment...
...second disengagement agreement. [It created] the momentum for the peace process to continue that has formed everything. Because Egypt and the U.S. started this peace process immediately after the October War-this made the Soviets furious until this moment. The second disengagement agreement was the last one in the step-by-step policy. We agreed we should get to the substance and to the establishment of peace in the area immediately after the U.S. elections. So after Carter was elected, he started, really, to join with me in beginning a new momentum for the peace process, because...
...policy brings the Carter Administration closer to the view of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who has long advocated a step-by-step approach to a final settlement. The possible steps: an Israeli-Egyptian accommodation; then an Israeli agreement with Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the moderate Palestinians; and finally a settlement with Syria triggered by a hint to Damascus -and to Moscow-that would say, in effect: "We're making progress, and if you want to be included, you'd better get moving...
...Nowadays," says Lang, "women often start with elaborate recipes but have no idea how to make a basic cream sauce." Therefore, he recommends that every cook have a step-by-step volume like Irma Rombauer and Marion Becker's Joy of Cooking (Bobbs-Merrill; $10.95 hardcover; New American Library; $4.95 paper) or, for the more advanced practitioner, Jacques Pépin's La Technique (Quadrangle; $25). He would add not only recipe books, but also several volumes that concern the philosophy and history of food. Lang's choices...
...Whatever faux pas he committed along the way, the President succeeded in getting two of the principals in the conflict to lift their eyes from procedural details and ponder the prospect of a final, comprehensive settlement. From the outset of his Administration, Carter had made clear that the old step-by-step approach employed so effectively by Henry Kissinger was in danger of becoming a treadmill, and that haggling over credentials, timetables and terminology had become an excuse for not facing the basic issues...