That reflects a gradual change in the way people in companies think of IT.
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Those who worked with what is alive today saw only gradual change and had the maths on their side.
The government's approach to harmonising the sales taxes levied by state governments is to seek agreement to gradual change.
In Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, this sort of gradual change could be a long time coming, and require another interim generation of leaders.
The overall cause for optimism is a gradual change in attitudes.
Alkhaled notes that, although many of the entrepreneurs she had interviewed felt "empowered" by their business experience, and were motivated by a desire for gradual social change, they expressed respect for their society's traditions.
"Hopefully this investment signals the start of a gradual culture change in how conflict at work is managed, from one where litigation is frequently the first step, to one where mediation and more informal dispute resolution in general becomes much more commonly used, " said Mike Emmott, CIPD's employee relations adviser.
Conservatism (or True Conservatism) is really just about making change gradual, and being cautious, and something Burke something.
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They cite the example of the Philippines, where policymakers are wringing their hands about a possible gradual climate-change-mediated rise in sea level from 1 to 3 millimeters per year while ignoring the primary cause of enhanced flood risk.
The change would be gradual to avoid a crash in the housing market.
In the other situations we are talking about the change is far more gradual.
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Fatany, a radio journalist and writer on women's issues who was one of the first women employed in government 30 years ago, believes change will be inevitable, though gradual.
Correspondents say King Abdullah has been cautiously pressing for political reforms, but in a country where conservative clerics and some members of the royal family resist change, liberalisation has been very gradual.
The gradual liberalisation of the economy from 1991 helped to motivate change, but the main catalysts were a slump in demand four years ago, competition from China, and the threat of markets being opened up by the World Trade Organisation.
But perhaps the most dramatic change over the last 20 years has been the gradual removal of border controls between EU states.
The process that Cowen describes would produce a gradual bend in the curve of progress, not the sudden change in slope that actually occurred.
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To them, such a fate might have been more dramatic and plausible than the change in sea level that would have accompanied the melting and gradual retreat glacial icesheets.
"It's that gradual incremental nature that, as we know, is a very powerful way to change attitudes and behaviors, " he said.
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Of the 300, 000 lives being lost each year due to climate change, the report finds nine out of 10 are related to "gradual environmental degradation, " and that deaths caused by climate-related malnutrition, diarrhea and malaria outnumber direct fatalities from weather-related disasters.
" 'Swing change' is really a stupid term, because it's actually just gradual evolution in encoded brain patterns, " Foley said.
And he continued his gradual shifting of the justification for the war on Iraq - giving as much weight to regime change and the possible link between Saddam Hussein's WMD and terror groups as he gave to the threat from Iraq.
The news is full of disturbing reports about global warming, threatened species, and the gradual realization that the way we live -- particularly in developed nations -- will have to change if we want to enjoy a clean and sustainable future.
The Japan he took up the leadership of in 2001 had lain in the doldrums for 11 years, never having had the crisis that might have forced it into reform, but also never achieving a gradual, consistent, consensual reform either, thanks to the power of special-interest groups to obstruct change.
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