For patients and their families, giving money can be a concrete act of progress at a time when a medical crisis has made them feel helpless.
And he has become the champion of legislative progress at a time when there is reason to doubt that it is possible.
That we are seeing progress during a time of potentially destabilising changes to university fees, school curriculum and qualifications is all the more encouraging".
But during the Empire State's construction, in 1930-31, it represented rising hope and progress at a time when so much seemed crushed and fallen.
The unfinished agreement was made public partly in an effort to demonstrate progress at a time of growing uncertainty and to press other potential coalition partners, like Shas and Meretz, a smaller, left-wing party, into more active negotiations.
All this may place a limit on progress at a time when demographic forces are constraining growth; it may have already subtracted 1% a year from the trend growth rate with further falls to come.
The Prime Minister and Chancellor George Osborne will make a fresh attempt to focus on the economy in the New Year, arguing that electing a Labour government would risk Britain's progress at a time of global economic uncertainty.
But the doctors say they are encouraged because she has made progress at a time when, given the usual course of the disease, she would be expected to regress.
It is easier to make progress at a time like this, says Bossidy.
Numerous autoimmune diseases are chronic in nature, progress over a time span of years and are characterised by specific autoantibodies the presence of which can precede full-blown disease by many months or many years.
He reflected on San Diego State's progress in a Time magazine article: "Though we are called a college, we are in deed and in fact a university".
