Significant progress, much of it spearheaded by the Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been made in the areas of teaching methods and skills, evaluation techniques, faculty development, computer usage, teaching recognition, counseling for the fourth-year student, and an integrated curriculum in women's health.
The New Keynesian project made some progress, much of which had little or nothing do with the economist John Maynard Keynes, but it failed to anticipate the ruinous boom-bust cycle that Alan Greenspan and Bernanke, in his first couple of years as Fed chairman, oversaw.
Of course, some of old Shanghai's destruction is truly progress: much of the city's housing stock had deteriorated beyond renovation at reasonable cost.
On the first score, there has been some progress: much of the stitching done in Tijuana these days is not of T-shirts but of finicky medical devices such as stents, made of fine pig tissue.
This review serves to summarize the key findings in this field with a focus on recent progress, much of which has been made possible by the availability of genetically engineered mouse models and SST receptor-specific agonists.
Yet despite this progress, much of what Carson wrote then still applies.
While German technology has created pockets of glossy progress, much of the country is poor, run-down and beaten down.
This is substantial progress, and much of it has proceeded faster than similar efforts in Germany and Japan after World War II.
That's how long it took to type four pages of narrative and dialogue for my novel-in-progress, much of which will eventually end up discarded.
(Don't spend too much time trying to sort out how much of that is a genuine commitment to social progress and how much of it is an irresistible chance to one-up your neighbours).
From the screenings in the grand Palais des Festivals to the swanky parties on the beach to the crowds along the Croisette, it was impossible to run into a boldfaced name without also confronting the issue of digital progress--how much of it can, will and should be allowed into this bastion of cinematic purity.
