Although actual opportunities soon contracted and a Melbourne working class rapidly emerged, Victoria was noted for its economic individualism and opportunism and for its material progress and financial speculation, as well as for its imperial loyalty and political pragmatism.
For now, all we can do is track the progress of the speculation balloon that Bill has floated – bearing in mind all the while the Clintons' proven powers of political resurrection.
Speculation about progress on the highly secretive project has intensified with the appearance online of photographs of a J-20 at an airfield.
Meanwhile ahead of the return of the Troika - the European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF - to Greece to report on its progress, there was increasing speculation the country might default and leave the eurozone.
He wrote a number of very popular works of natural history, some in verse, in which he defended views about progress that included evolutionary speculations about the upward progress of living things from primordial beginnings.
In managing Morneau's recovery, the Twins stopped giving daily medical updates, Smith said, to discourage speculation about his progress or setbacks.
News on Tuesday that American diplomats would sit down with Taliban leaders – the first direct talks since the US helped oust the group from power in 2001 – prompted speculation that real progress towards a negotiated end to the war in Afghanistan might be in sight.
In a new interview, Petraeus downplays the speculation and insists progress has been made.
The company's new chairman, Hans Dieter Pötsch, told a news conference in Wolfsburg: "Nobody is served by speculation or vague, preliminary progress reports.
Cancer arises from normal cells that acquire a series of molecular changes; however, the founding events that create the clonogens from which a tumor will arise and progress have been the subject of speculation.
