Sometimes the slow and steady approach to reform is better than being drastic and bold.

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While the rest of the field spent Sunday riding bogeys and birdies up and down the leaderboard, Scott took the slow and steady approach.

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The small-but-steady approach of birds, bees, and ants offers a better model for changing human behavior than the hop-to-it top-down model used by many companies and governments.

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The central struggle was between the publicly funded international Human Genome Project, led by Francis Collins, a distinguished scientist and devout Christian, which pursued a slow-and-steady approach to sequencing until Celera, a private company led by Craig Venter, appeared on the scene and boldly claimed that its revolutionary new technique, whole-genome shot-gun sequencing, could do the job in less than half the time.

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The approach has yielded steady sales and numerous architecture awards, yet much of this success was accidental.

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Then there was a steady stream of advice about how to approach large gifts to family.

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While some analysts are pointing to rises in interest rates, inflation is still sufficiently low to allow the Bank of England room to pursue a steady-as-she-goes approach, Mr Hawkins added.

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If you were to chart this fund, you would see a very nice upward steady upward trajectory because of the different approach that each manager has to the market, the flexibility that each has.

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This approach, as well as ECTCM, can be used only in people with slow, steady heartbeats.

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