Word: gradually
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...seems committed to the politics of polarization. Viet Nam is the touchstone of division, the litmus test of loyalty. Nixon's aim is to demonstrate to Hanoi that the protesters do not speak for the American public, and so gain time and leverage for his plan for a gradual U.S. disengagement from Viet Nam. In the process, the Administration is splitting conservatives from liberals, drawing a line between dissenters and Americans who are sick of dissent-more so than of the war itself...
Attorney General John Mitchell, Leonard's boss and Nixon's chief political adviser, denies that he is pursuing a Southern strategy. Last week he maintained that a gradual, conciliatory approach was the only way to desegregate the schools without provoking an uproar that would be damaging to education. Mitchell and HEW Secretary Robert Finch said that they feared that the Supreme Court's "cold-turkey" approach would accelerate the exodus of whites to proliferating private schools, eroding taxpayer support for the public schools and thereby undermining the education given to the blacks and poor whites who remain...
...easing in policy, whenever it comes, will be slight and gradual. The erratic swings-from extreme looseness to tightness and back again-in past Federal Reserve policy have created an economic credibility gap. Businessmen, consumers and labor leaders generally seem convinced that at the first signs of recession, the Federal Reserve will again switch to an open-handed expansion. This time the change must be carried out with such finesse that, as one high Administration policymaker says, "there will be a guessing game for months." Bankers, businessmen and economists will have to try to figure out whether or not movements...
Though the two groups are more loose electoral coalitions than political parties. there has been sharp division between the CCA and independents on the School Committee in recent years. CCA School Committeemen have charged that the independent domination has led to a gradual decline in the quality of Cambridge public Schools...
...gradual U.S. disengagement could ease the U.S. into a new period of a more subtle, more imaginative Asian policy. It could also ameliorate the shock of the reverse that the U.S. has unquestionably suffered in Viet Nam. These are limited and intangible goals; to continue sacrificing lives and money for them a hard task indeed. But if these goals are achieved, they may at least help justify the sacrifices in lives and money already made during the long...