The onset of Parkinson's, stoically borne, meant there could be no more moves along foreign trails.
The monastery became a stop on the lightly trodden foreign tourist trail.
Makes no difference where these surreptitious tsunamis of decoy dollars are originating from: religious nut jobs, public service unions, defense contractors or foreign benefactors trailing behind them leaky puddles of nuclear radiated waste.
Virtual-reality start-ups trail foreign counterparts, and Google has a jump on Baidu in driverless car technology.
Join these two sleuthing economists as they follow the foreign aid money trail into the grasping hands of corrupt governments and shady underworld characters.
That's why the former American Big Three continue to lavish attention on the interiors of their pickups, making giant-volume products like the F-series (which found almost 814,000 buyers last year, despite a sales loss of about 100,000 units from 2001) more swanky, while the interiors of their passenger cars continue to trail foreign design and quality.
Her main challenger, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the foreign minister, is trailing largely because voters doubt he would be any smarter in this respect.
Mr Karzai has 46 per cent of the votes, counted predominantly from the north and west which should be the stronghold of Dr Abdullah, the former foreign minister who trails with 33 per cent.
Mr. Graham, a Capitol Hill veteran whose past post as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has given him a prominent voice on foreign policy, has trailed his Democratic rivals badly in fund-raising and in opinion polls.
So while U.S. carmakers may continue trailing foreign makers in creating a better car, at least one is scorching its rivals in the Dead Cat Bounce 500.
If the overall trend holds up, this will be sixth year in seven that foreign funds have trailed U.S. funds, on average.
