1.   But critics said such a slow transition would discriminate between customers.

2.   He said Hamas is undergoing a slow transition into what could become a more effective political organization.

3.   His career over the past few years has been a slow transition in which his intellectual side, aided by the sobering reality of power, won out.

4.   If the empty shops suggest a slow transition to the new Rockefeller Center, the owners are whistling a happy tune.

5.   Industry executives have blamed the slow transition to digital television partly on the reluctance of the cable industry to provide channels for both analog and digital signals.

6.   Kaunda locked up many dissenters under his own one-party state, but after pressure from the West allowed a slow transition to democracy.

7.   The offense is trying to make the slow transition from the aging Jerry Rice to Owens.

8.   Then there was the elbow injury that sidelined him for a month and the slow transition back into the lineup.

9.   But they plead for a slow transition to avoid hardship for those with low incomes, including pensioners and the unemployed.

10.   Economic reforms are helping that slow transition, spurring industrialization that is creating new job opportunities.