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  • Gradually from the crude ideas in my thesis, these drafts developed into papers that in my opinion are a significant precursor to the modern work on this topic by Ricardo Caballero.

    George A. Akerlof - Autobiography 2002

  • "Gradually," Nash recalled, "I began to reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking."

    Books on the Brilliantly Disturbed Joshua Kendall 2009

  • "Gradually," Laqueur wrote, "the world has reconciled itself to the fact that there will be a fourth Arab-Israeli War in the near future."

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • "Gradually", says the classical economist, "the surplus of commodities will be consumed because of the necessity of replacements and renewals.

    Economic Recovery in Great Britain and the United States 1934

  • "Gradually," went on Mr. Wright, "new brains attacked the problems of the small press, improving and enlarging it until little by little a press was built up which is so intricate and so wonderful that it almost ceases to be a machine and becomes nearly human.

    Paul and the Printing Press Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • "Gradually," said my friend to me, "I discovered a process by which I might execute a deed of separation.

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • "Gradually," he says, "I started to string together two, three, four normal nights 'sleep.

    Boston.com Most Popular 2009

  • Gradually we began to make the case that we had a responsibility as a nation to preserve something that had been given to us, something extraordinary, and that a failure to protect it would be a grave and permanent loss.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Gradually, a new approach to child poverty began to take shape in my head.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Gradually, a new approach to child poverty began to take shape in my head.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

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