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Hand counting is generally a good means of ensuring a proper tally of votes, as humans should have the ultimate say over an election. Despite gradual trends toward mechanization, in the case of a very close election, a hand count returns the power of the election to a human authority. The punch-ballots used in Florida are particularly prone to computer error as ballots cannot be counted unless the paper covering a hole is completely removed. It is possible that the computers did not count ballots clearly demarcated for a particular candidate that did not have fully punched holes...
Protecting civilization is the goal of the Kyoto Protocol, but the treaty allows 12 more years for implementation, on the assumption that climate change will be gradual. That assumption looks shaky. Studies of deep underground ice layers in Greenland, which reveal a record of climate changes over hundreds of thousands of years, show that major climate shifts, like the onset of the Younger Dryas, can come very abruptly--within a few decades...
...time when very little within the art world has caught the imagination of many people outside the art world, one of the current notable trends is the gradual marginalization of art--you know, pictures and stuff. There may not be another crowd-pleasing Warhol on the horizon, but museums must have their blockbusters, so they have been resorting more often lately to shows of easy-to-digest fashion or pop-music artifacts. The embarrassing "Rock Style" show that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City put on earlier this year stuffed both trends into one silly shopping...
...Huff knows Earl by now and has compassion for him. He remembers how, when he was six, he watched his own aunt make the trip to Whitfield. Of naked Earl in his jail, Huff says, "He doesn't feel like he's losing his mind, because it's so gradual." After forcing Earl out of the cell, Huff and his men put him in the back of a cruiser. With Earl finally on his way to Whitfield again, Huff drives home and showers. He knows he and Earl will meet again...
...length of the campaign is a problem," Buhr added. Instead of peaking with the primaries and then a lull before the conventions, it should be a "gradual building of excitement and tension," she said...