That progress, granted, isn't happening fast enough or – more important — sweepingly enough.
The organization survives on dues ($10 for Young Inventors and $40 for Young at Heart members); advertising in its quarterly publication, The IP (for "intellectual progress"); grants and donations from Magna International, University of Toronto, Pratt & Whitney, DuPont, and the Canadian government; and corporate sponsorships in exchange for marketing on the group's Web site.
Further examination of this relationship is under investigation in the longitudinal follow-up of this sample, which is currently in progress (NHMRC grant #401241).
Mike Bloomberg understands we can't take progress for granted".
To take scientific progress for granted is to underestimate the difficulties, professional and otherwise, that scientists must overcome.
"A year ago there was nothing opening," Mr Sheikh Mohamed says, before warning against taking progress for granted in a city where war has long been the norm.
Repeat violence is worryingly high, and there is a risk that we are taking progress for granted when much more could and should be done.
John Holmes, the under secretary general in charge of emergency, said that while there had been "slight progress" in granting visas to relief workers, only 34 of more than 100 applications had been approved.
Since 15 years of conflict between the army and Kurdish guerrillas ended last year, Kurdish leaders in southeastern Turkey have been looking to the government for progress on granting new rights to the region, including assurances that Kurdish can be spoken freely and that young people can be educated in Kurdish.
That said, no-one who has watched Scotland on either business or 'pleasure' in the past 15 years will take continued progress for granted, least of all Strachan.
