Mr. Williams said United States officials had expected to make substantial progress in the negotiations, aimed at addressing the underlying causes of Japan's persistent huge annual trade imbalance with the United States.
Congress eliminated $42 million in aid to Lima last month and the Senate approved a provision to cut off more funds for Peru if the president reports that Mr. Fujimori has failed to make "substantial progress in improving its respect for human rights".
Working with a group of natural polymers called polysaccharides — which include cellulose, starch, hemicelluloses, chitin, and chitosan (created via the deacetylation of chitin), and are easy and inexpensive to obtain — the MIT team has been able to make substantial progress on their ambitious goals.
However, due to the cost and labor associated with collecting milk flow data, it has been difficult to make substantial progress compared to other traits.
Comprehensive bioinformatics analysis of these data has allowed us to make substantial progress in defining networks of interacting genes which operate during neurodegeneration in mouse scrapie.
"Most of the easy stuff has been squeezed out already," he said, adding that it had become increasingly difficult to make substantial progress in predicting accuracy.
Since last year, heightened tension in Afghan-Pakistani relations, with Kabul accusing Islamabad of using the Taliban as a proxy, have also hindered the QCG's ability to make substantial progress.
By the end of your first few months on the job, you will have to have made substantial progress energizing people and focusing them on solving the business's most pressing problems.
Wisconsin has done this and has made substantial progress in its development of WI-PHIN and EPHTN, but much work remains.
