Italy and France, meanwhile, have made considerably less progress on improving their international competitiveness.
But while American history has known other kinds of male authority — we've had Yankees and peanut farmers, policy wonks and orators, haberdashers and horn-dogs — we have made considerably less imaginative space for ways in which women can persuade us of their ability to lead.
Thus, perhaps the most compelling explanation for the CGDI changes lies in where, in reality, on the trajectory of change the DHB was: some were clearly further along in their developmental journey, or had made considerably more progress in a short time than others, or had started to see the payoff from an early commitment to clinical governance.
This decentralised system has made it considerably harder for authorities to crack down on illegal downloading.
If the government has assumed this market risk for me, and will simply give me the average return, then it has made me considerably better off.
While the Internet as a whole has been shortening my attention span for quite some time, social media has made it considerably worse.
Conservation groups have bemoaned the fact that the film has made it considerably harder to convince the public that sharks should be protected.
One of the ironies attached to Duncan Smith's "Easterhouse Epiphany" is the fact that his decimation of the welfare system has made life considerably harder for those living, working and merely getting by in the area.
According to media reports, residents say Pizarchik did not enforce existing regulations as the head of the office, and that since 2006, the department has made it considerably more difficult for residents to comment on mining permit applications.
The use of satellites has made the job considerably easier.
