The work is still years from becoming a commercial product, but it has progressed far enough that Dr. Binnig, 55, will retire from I.B.M. at year's end to spend more time on interests like painting and composing music.
One version of such a law, the Main Street Fairness Act, is already before Congress, though it is not progressing far.
Today, he said, with strict government regulations in place, the field has progressed far past the try-it-and-see days.
Schwartz says he believes this could indeed be happening, but research hasn't progressed far enough to prove it.
It is not clear, though, that the improvement can ever progress far enough to help the patients.
Defensively, though, it looked like there was a weakness in every team, even some of those who progressed far into the tournament.
"Have England progressed far enough?
Executives familiar with the talks cautioned that they had not progressed far.
Two years ago, Rolle finally progressed far enough to earn support from the U.S.T.A. development program.
Considering the privatisation plan never progressed far enough to include any details, we can't say that for sure.
