Under the current national development plan, state hospitals will gradually be run like companies, though as government-owned entities.

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There is some guarded optimism that things may gradually be changing for the better, thanks largely to the development of Turkmenistan's huge oil and gas reserves.

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To gradually bring this new product experience to life, SAP is standardizing development on several core platforms, which, breaking the hard-coding paradigm, will be loosely coupled and naturally distributed.

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The Quinn Group gradually expanded, supplying other building products, glass and plastics, and eventually moved into insurance, hotels and property development.

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