Moreover, with the accumulative clock-drift becoming bigger and bigger, the impact on communications turns to be more and more serious.
For a complete list see NASA's Six Millennium Catalog of Venus Transits: 2000 BCE to 4000 CE Currently, transits occur only in June or December (see table) and the occurrence of these events slowly drifts, becoming later in the year by about two days every 243-year cycle.
The more pessimistic fear a drift towards becoming the next North Korea a regime that brandishes nuclear weapons at the outside world while its people slide into penury.
More pessimistic Iranians fear a drift towards becoming the next North Korea a regime that brandishes nuclear weapons at the outside world while its people slide into penury.
Mr. Petraeus's departure presents Mr. Obama with an opportunity to halt the C.I.A.'s drift toward becoming a paramilitary organization and put it back on course.
As the generation of 39-45 combatants dies out, we drift towards becoming an anxious nation that can't get away from the Nazis it pluckily vanquished, or past the loss of its imperial pre-eminence.
But as more mainstream players get involved, with their talk of astronomical growth and relatively quick exit strategies, accusations of "mission drift" are becoming louder and more frequent.
An invitation from the archbishop of New Orleans brought them to the Big Easy, where, not without conflict, they began (as at home) to fish, and began also the familiar generational drift toward becoming local, if not quite integrated.
Beyond a certain level of divergence, the process of accumulation of unequal crossovers stops and they drift, ultimately becoming monomeric.
It drifted northwestward, becoming a tropical storm on August 9 and a typhoon on August 10.
"We seem to be drifting into becoming a large bureaucracy that is not listening to teachers and parents," she said.
