Excluding a 9-cent charge for the gradual write-down of intangible assets — the value of contracts Medco received when it was spun off from Merck and Company in 2003 — earnings per share would have been 86 cents.
In 23 chapters that read like linked essays, she recounts the following nine months, the time it takes for the information to settle in her searching, despairing writer's mind, and her gradual realization that "writing would not save Ronan.
"The first Gilded Age, despite its glaring inequities, was accompanied by a gradual rise in the standard of living; the second by a gradual erosion," he writes.
"[The] sudden appearance of so many Dicotyledons… appears to me a most perplexing phenomenon to all who believe in any form of evolution, especially to those who believe in extremely gradual evolution," Darwin wrote to Swiss naturalist Oswald Heer in 1875.
I suppose I see his life as a kind of three act play," his apprenticeship, a middle period when he was unable "to move his career into the major achievements he dreamed of" and "the slow recovery from the failure of 'Guy Domville' and the gradual building up into the writing the great novels," "The Wings of the Dove," "The Ambassadors" and "The Golden Bowl".
Such a government would be tasked with writing a new constitution and instituting gradual political reforms while promoting human rights and economic development programs.
I've also undergone a gradual stylistic evolution that may have had something to do with my writing travel-based nonfiction.
The resurgence was gradual and many women wrote anonymously.
"Progress on some of the oldest and toughest challenges associated with computers, robots and other digital gear," they write, "was gradual for a long time.
Following the first interview, patients in the SIW group will be given written individualized gradual dose reduction schedules and will be advised to contact the GP if any problems related to the discontinuation process emerge; the study will not schedule any subsequent visit.
