It will require a gradual popular shift to reverse.
It arrives in Target stores (and getpeek.com) next week, whereupon it will follow the usual cycle of simple, elegant tech products: 1) universal scorn by feature-listers online; 2) quiet, gradual popular acceptance by normal people; 3) bafflement on the part of the feature-listers, who still don't get that there are two kinds of people in the world.
The incidence of beriberi in Asia has markedly decreased because an improved standard of living has allowed a more varied diet and partly because of the gradual popular acceptance of partially dehusked, parboiled, and enriched rice forms that contain higher concentrations of thiamin.
Seen from the east, the surface of the Great Plains rises inexorably from about 2,000 feet (600 metres) near Omaha, Nebraska, to more than 6,000 feet (1,825 metres) at Cheyenne, Wyoming, but the climb is so gradual that popular legend holds the Great Plains to be flat.
Here's the important part: a CIA spokesperson formally denied the charge that the U.S. spy agency is behind the letter's gradual fade from popular usage.
What began as a gradual alteration of popular sentiment has taken on form and meaning, and, I believe, we are going to see positive political results from conservative resurgence during the next ten years.
The subject of "Platform" is nothing less than the social and cultural transformation of China in the 1980's, the slow waning of Maoist orthodoxy and the gradual arrival of Western popular culture and clothing styles.
There are other factors contributing to the ratings spikes: attention-grabbing shows (the Super Bowl featured the New Orleans Saints, a popular underdog), gradual population growth and an economic contraction that some analysts say is leading to more people spending more time at home in front of their TV and computer screens.
Al-Banna's objective was to found an "Islamic state" based on gradual reform, beginning with popular education and broad-based social programs.
As the government has prioritised increasing the purchasing power of salaries, popular expectations of gradual peso appreciation have led to flight from the dollar-linked convertible peso (CUC) into the non-convertible peso (CUP).
Gates made a more political point: that if there were no prospects for gradual but substantial troop withdrawals, popular support for the war would evaporate, and the next president would probably pull out all the troops as quickly as possible, resulting in Iraq's potential collapse.
