told me, 'Some of my peers are eager to have you at their table so they won't be on your menu.' " He went on, "The problem here is the preference for incremental thinking — baby steps.
Politics ultimately determine what changes are possible, and there is clearly still resistance to some of the needed changes, though how much is hard to know given the government's historical preference for incremental reform.
Naturally, there is no guarantee that they will.Even though this was the first chance to review EU spending since ten new members joined in 2004, the budget displays a strong preference for incremental change.
That implies that, barring a surge in inflation or a sharp drop in the unemployment rate, Mr. Greenspan is likely to stick to his preference for incremental quarter-point rate increases rather than grabbing the attention of the markets through half-point increases.
For many years, the salient features of the EU have included an obsession with detail, a preference for incremental change, an inability to do things until the last minute, habit-forming dependency on France and Germany, and a commitment (sometimes wobbly) to enlargement.
To perform a patient preference-based, incremental cost-effectiveness analysis for laser treatment of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to report a reference case, patient preference-based, incremental, cost-utility analysis for treatments of retinal detachment associated with severe proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR).
Whereas prior research focuses only on the potential benefits of firms communicating their general preferences, my study provides important insights regarding the potential incremental effectiveness of communicating specific preferences.
It reflects not simply an arbitrary methodological preference but an incremental, inductive, bottom-up strategy to build effective behavior influence practices.
In selecting technocrats, rather than high-profile appointees from across the political spectrum, Mr. Morsi and his prime minister, Hesham Qandil, showed a preference for cautious — and incremental — change as they face a series of mounting crises.
