The newly expanded continental margin gradually stabilized.

A senior Western diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity here said the general's rule was gradually stabilizing the country.

At the time, the stock was trading around $17 and he explained that he believed analysts were overly negative about the company because there were signs that the business was stabilizing and gradually improving under Michael H. Jordan, who became chief executive a year and a half ago.

League membership gradually stabilized throughout the 1920s and 1930s as the league adopted progressively more formal organization.

Remarkably, towns like Ramadi in Anbar Province are gradually stabilizing.

Henry Kaufman said it should "gradually stabilize at around 4 percent of G.N.P." That is a staggering political task - to reduce the military's share of our economy by a third.

Nor is there any doubt that a solid bilateral relationship between Italy and Slovenia is consistent with the eastward enlargement of the European Union as well as an important element in gradually stabilizing the Balkan region.

"That IQ may be highly heritable does not mean that it is not affected by the environment ... IQs do gradually stabilize during childhood, however, and generally change little thereafter"

Mr. Zuckerman bought The Daily News out of bankruptcy in 1993 for $36 million, gradually stabilizing and modernizing a very distressed property to the point that it makes money (albeit less and less).