The distress the employee alleged, including his emotional reaction to an incremental, increased risk of dying from cancer, was beyond the ability of a jury to evaluate with precision, heightening the danger that damages would be based upon speculation or caprice, see id., at 435.
The president has to respond, he says, though there is the danger of "an incremental drip by drip intervention".
The report warns of the dangers of an "incremental and involuntary journey towards a Terminator-like reality", referring to James Cameron's 1984 movie, in which humans are hunted by robotic killing machines.
"Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation, and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure," he writes.
None has yet materialized, but in her speech here today, State Controller Kathleen Connell, struggling to break out of a crowded field of candidates for mayor of Los Angeles and barred from seeking a third term next year, warned of the dangers of an incremental approach to the electricity crisis in what some heard as a direct hit at Mr. Davis, though she never mentioned his name.
"The danger today is of an incremental buildup of restrictions that could slowly strangle international trade and undercut the effectiveness of policies to boost aggregate demand and restore sustained growth globally," the report said.
"The danger is that this proposal is an incremental disincentive to investigations by the media, where there are already many others".
Hers was an incremental awakening.
It's an incremental thing.
It's not an incremental change.
"It is an incremental step forward.
