A country that acts in so many ways like a revolutionary society – from its creation myth to the personality cult that surrounds its founding fathers – is constituted to thwart all but the most incremental change.
The later Clinton years showed "that even the most worthwhile incremental changes, like expansion of children's health insurance, can't get at the root economic dysfunctionality of the current system," said John D. Podesta, who was Mr. Clinton's last chief of staff and later led Mr. Obama's transition after the 2008 election.
Indeed, her experience with health-care reform helped teach her that most people prefer incremental change to ambitious overhauls.
Most infection-control strategies would cause incremental changes, not pure marginal changes.
Most crop breeding programs target small incremental changes, while structural variation is manifested as large disruptive changes, including possible sterility as result of genome mismatch.
Most importantly, with the star+ model incremental changes in cost resulting from block movement can be computed in O(1) time, regardless of the size of the net.
Most researchers assume that evolutionary change comes about through incremental changes to many genes.
Most of the time, the anomalies are resolved either by incremental changes to the paradigm or by uncovering observational or experimental error.
Most co-op and condo boards, he said, would rather make incremental changes and take on one project at a time.
Despite Al Gore's reputation as a zealot, he and Bill Clinton proposed only incremental changes in environmental policy — rationalizing the stewardship of public lands and eliminating some of the most gaping loopholes in the nation's anti-pollution laws.
