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The mid-1980s witnessed a gradual program of liberalization in Poland on the heels of Mikhail Gorbachev’s remarkable perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union, the promises of greater openness and economic freedoms.
That situation, plus the gradual decline of Spanish naval power, proved very tempting to others.
I love your interpretation of the wizard world as parallel to the gay world--the young wizard's gradual recognition of his difference, the sudden revelation that there are tons of other people like him.
The clock is so accurate that every so often the time must be adjusted by adding a "leap second" to account for the gradual, if modest, slowing of the Earth's rotation.
Thus, the most plausible explanation for much of the gene loss occurring in the evolution of Buchnera is the fixation of single large deletions spanning many genes, although it is also clear that some genes were eliminated through smaller deletions and gradual erosion.