Although the commodity-heavy FTSE 100 index in Britain is hitting new highs, most other major indexes in the world have made almost no progress for five months.
It had been a strange, almost eccentric, progress for Derwall's team to the final, beginning with the traumatising defeat by Algeria, which left him murmuring, "I don't understand". In blistering heat, the Germans had outplayed Algeria, gaining 16 corners against four, yet still managing to lose 2-1.
The growing number of families, she added, "is almost like natural progress" for Cherry Grove.
Duncan Drasdo, chief executive of the Manchester United Supporters Trust, who has been watching Neville's progress for almost three decades, is not surprised.
As Muglia recently told me, "Understanding data is still very much a work in progress for almost all customers.
A score between zero and five has been awarded, with zero for virtually no progress, five for almost complete success and a sliding scale in between.
General Petraeus will take command of the Afghanistan campaign six months into an 18-month-long strategy that will almost certainly have to show significant progress for Mr. Obama to continue.
Given no Russian side has reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League since Spartak in 1996, and CSKA are the first eastern side to reach the last 16 since Lokomotiv in 2003-04, progress for them would almost make this season feel like a triumph for Russia, despite the under performance in the Europa League.
Despite significant advances in understanding the causes and clinical manifestation of dystroglycanopathies, almost no progress has been made for the treatment of the diseases including those caused by FKRP mutations.
Winning even one round would represent impressive progress for a franchise that has been the leaguewide target of ridicule for almost a decade.
