The gas rushes out rapidly in the first year or so before tailing off quite fast to a third of the original flow and gradually declining thereafter.

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As for the putative foreign minister, the incumbent, Javier Solana of Spain, could continue in the job, certainly for the first year or so.

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It is true that beginning in the late nineties during the first year of the Khatami presidency there was a period of a year or so when the optimistic could believe that the forces of moderation might make substantial progress in Iran.

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