The most likely course will be for automakers to continue on a very incremental approach.
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Other options might be a more incremental approach, with the accompanying challenge of the July 2011 timeline.
This incremental approach contrasts sharply with the sweeping proposals announced this month by British Columbia's aboriginal-relations minister.
The central bank's new effort marked a departure from the more incremental approach it had followed for years.
Since the failure of the Clinton national health care plan in 1994, the president has been forced to take an incremental approach.
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But the message remains clear that he has been taking an incremental approach to growth rather than trying to digest everything thrown his way all at once.
The new chief justice offers instead a cautious, incremental approach.
The incremental approach mitigates the risk of the kind of dependency that welfare states had unwittingly fostered in the poor in the past and doesn't undermine slum dwellers' sense of personal agency.
Marwan Muasher, a vice president at the Carnegie Endowment and a former deputy prime minister of Jordan, said Mr. Obama wasted an opportunity after Cairo by failing to follow through and instead taking an incremental approach to the peace process.
"It may persuade enough of them that they do need to be more moderate and incremental in the approach, and they may actually come up with a package that is even more popular than what would have otherwise been, had they tried to get the bill through before August, " he said.
And heralding the City Deals scheme - in which more than 20 cities in England are steadily being given new powers over planning and transport - he suggested this could be a model of a more incremental but still radical approach to calls for a new political settlement in England.
They assumed that an incremental, driver-assistance approach was the way to go.
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Mindful of those doubts, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and therefore the man with his hand on the steering wheel for the issue in the House, declared last week that he will pursue an incremental, go-slow approach.
Mr Schultz, who earlier this year returned to the helm of the company he built into a global giant, deserves credit for trying to return Starbucks to its old approach to innovation, which was all about incremental product variation around a central platform.
Imagine if the Mass Effect series had followed a similar approach, not changing too much from one game to the next, and focusing more on polish and incremental improvements than on more drastic changes.
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