He needs to be carefully nurtured and ideally found a new-ball partner of comparable ability.

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The Iraqi film industry, once carefully nurtured by the government, has not produced a single film since 1990.

ECONOMIST: Lost in a cultural desert

It is critical to maintain the carefully nurtured concept that brought success and hopefully build on it without destroying it.

FORBES: A Word of Warning

Over the past 20 years, some 1, 175 different kinds of banana have been carefully nurtured as tiny plants growing in test tubes.

ECONOMIST: A banana bank is safeguarding the future of the crop

Seeing his carefully nurtured negotiations melt into the hell of rocket and artillery barrages, then-U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher flew to Damascus to mediate a ceasefire.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Arrest Assad, Don't Treat with Him

For Turkey, not only has the zero problem with neighbors policy been shattered, but the Arab world opening it had carefully nurtured will be negatively affected if transport trucks must now take a long diversion through Iraq.

CNN: Syrian isolation marks regime's nadir

But even a limited upsurge in fighting in rural areas, where the guerrillas are active, would damage the country's reputation for stability that had been so carefully nurtured in the mid-1990s by Fidel Ramos, who was then president.

ECONOMIST: The Philippines

The advertising market in India has been carefully nurtured by the legendary creative mind of Piyush Pandey who recently received the CLIO lifetime achievement award, and who has helped pave the way for the next generation of thought leaders.

FORBES: India Has The World On A Plate

The PlayStation was technologically impressive, with its ability to splash over 300, 000 polygons on a television screen in a single second. (Nearly all videogame graphics are composed of polygons so "polygons per second" is a rough and ready measure of a machine's power.) Perhaps more important, Sony carefully forged and nurtured good relationships with third-party software developers, ensuring a steady supply of great games for its system.

FORBES: Pixelated dreams