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...Vajpayee through the next general elections, but no further. The party currently rules in a coalition, with Vajpayee as the glue that holds it together. If it manages to win an absolute majority, it won't need him any longer. The Prime Minister has largely accepted this gradual decline. His great ambition on gaining office was to do for India-Pakistan relations what Nixon did for China and the U.S.: only a right-winger, went the argument, could take the country into a peace deal with the archenemy. And this Vajpayee wanted to do, to secure a place...
Last October, Harvard was ranked as high as No. 8 in preseason polls and was picked to win the ECAC by conference coaches. But Mazzoleni and the players were more cautious, saying that the team’s realization of its potential would be a gradual process...
...Crimson (26-10, 7-3 CWPA) continued its gradual ascent in the sport with its best season in recent memory, concluding its run by defeating St. Francis in the third-place game of CWPA Easterns. The team had never placed that high at Easterns in its 21-year history...
TIME: The new approach is a complete contrast to your father's style. . MICHELIN: It has been a very gradual transition. It's the very opposite of a rupture or revolution and in no way alters our focus on quality, research and development and the long-term management of the company dedicated to customers and workers. I inherited those qualities from my father. They're part of the genetic makeup of the company. Read a longer version of this interview on TIMEeurope.com
...however, Than Shwe is a military man, and that's where his chief loyalty lies. He still firmly believes the army is best suited to rule Burma and its fractious ethnic groups. Even some diplomats agree a transition to a freer society will have to be slow and gradual as the country has no democratic institutions. But the struggle to build them may well begin with this first thaw between two once implacable foes?and when Aung San Suu Kyi takes those first steps toward freedom...