Although banks have recently become more willing to lend, their rules are new.
Some state legislators, whose support will be needed for trying alternatives to prison, are becoming willing to try something new.
At the same time, aerospace companies are slowly becoming more willing to cooperate.
For their part, universities have become more willing to accept corporate money.
Consumers have become less willing to pay for good brand names, let alone tired ones.
Many are becoming less willing to give away the store.
For one thing, doctors, they say, have become more willing to ask patients questions like, "Do you have enough food?"
"The authors are becoming more willing to turn to university presses."
Others note that employees are becoming less willing to relocate to any city.
The army simply does not need them all, and so it has become more willing to hand out exemptions.