He said emergency-service fleets would switch to the 5 percent blend by the end of the year but would not make the warm-weather transition to the 20 percent mixture.
Dozens of Web sites and books have been created to help parents weather the transition.
Beyond the weather, the transition to the new job was a big shock.
So the company is having to weather the transition to a time when faster networks become more important.
Inside the increasingly professional ranks, the same questions are being asked about how the security forces will weather the transition.
Some senior civil servants earn as little as $250 a month.On paper, Mr Meles's ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front should weather a transition.
He said Nokia, which reported net cash reserves of €4.9 billion at the end of March, had "ample" resources to weather the transition.
Most of the independent aid organizations expect to weather the transition as NATO departs, determined to stay in Afghanistan, although in reduced form.
As the trickle of web-based transactions turns into a flood for certain categories of goods, high-street stores are striving to weather the transition.
Officials from L.S.U. say that at least some of their hospitals could weather the transition and even be competitive with private hospitals, but everyone acknowledges that it would be difficult.
Since January, Mr. Elop has disclosed plans to cut a third of Nokia's work force, or 21,000 jobs, providing savings to weather the transition to a Windows-centric business.
