The basis for progress has been the agreement that Northern Ireland's main parties signed on Good Friday, 1998.
He added that they all "begin and end with a salary cap, so that doesn't provide us with any basis for progress".
Jean-Claude Juncker's head of cabinet, Martin Selmayr, said the Athens proposal offered "a good basis for progress", though he described the talks as a "forceps delivery", underscoring the exertions to prevent Greece leaving the eurozone.
Mr. Kerry has frequently said that time is the enemy, arguing that attitudes could harden and that unexpected developments could complicate painstaking efforts to lay the basis for progress at the negotiating table.
Making it clear that the Israeli government would not agree to President Obama's call for a complete halt to settlement construction, Mrs. Clinton promoted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer as a reasonable compromise that could still form the basis for progress.
Tony Blair, representing the peacemaking "Quartet" of the UN, the United States, Russia and the European Union, still hopes that Mr Kerry has a chance of "re-anchoring" the negotiations, with the 1967 borders and land swaps as the basis for progress "to the next stage".
The paper analyzes by examples the strength of the "state-of-art" of chemical reactor engineering which as examples formed the basis for progress in ammonia synthesis and in steam reforming.
I find myself at once rooted in Jewish history and aware that not all history provides the basis for progress.
