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Federal officials said they had made substantial progress, setting up telephone call centers and establishing procedures for the Treasury to make monthly payments.

PARIS — As industrialization hurtled ahead in the United States in the early years of the 20th century, U.S. universities, beacons of rationalism and progress, set up business schools dedicated to producing managers trained in a new science of business administration.

Since then, the task force official said, Iran changed some of its laws but made only minimal progress in reducing the chances of money-laundering and no progress in setting up restrictions on aiding terrorists.

President Andrés Pastrana warned Colombian rebels to "make progress" in setting up a timetable for talks about a cease-fire.

But there has been almost no progress toward setting up an election commission, let alone taking a census.

But progress on setting up the so-called European External Actions Service had proved painfully slow before negotiations in Madrid on Monday led to the breakthrough.

Mr Zuma also said the government was taking steps to secure its porous borders and making progress in setting up a border management agency, announced last year and scheduled to be up and running in 2016.

A Western diplomat said that progress in setting up a new Afghan administration in Kabul and an international military force would serve as curbs on commanders like General Dostum.

The UN-sponsored Green Climate Fund would also provide a strong source of finance, de Boer predicted, though the slow progress on setting up the fund and disbursing cash has frustrated many international green campaigners.

Greene believes she made some progress in setting up training and policies to protect victims of sexual assault, but states that her job became more difficult as time went on.

While international officials say they are making good progress at setting up voting sites and training poll workers, reports from the ground suggest that there is still a lot of work to do to ensure that Haitians know where to go and what to expect on election day.