If a malaise besets contemporary life, Robbins writes, it may have been produced not by the march of progress but by the faltering of progress — "by the present's failure to achieve a level of social justice that the premodern world did not even strive to achieve".
But as Ms. Fairley does successfully convey, progress in the present doesn't necessarily erase the pain of the past.
If, for example, the editor had called, to inquire after the progress of the present piece, I would have been like to reply, "Nay, Madam, I find I get on excessively ill.
The progress of the present experiment and the main results of this work are schematically summarized in Figure 6.
These features suggest the extensional deformation prevails in the areas from the island arc to the forearc, and is in progress at the present time.
Here we suggest how to progress from the present accumulation of phenomenological findings to a design of mixed-species stands and advanced silvicultural prescriptions by means of modelling.
Upon addition of various metal ions, the receptor only shows 286-fold enhancement of fluorescence intensity which might be attributed to a 1 1 stoichiometry between PMHCH and Al3+ and the photo-induced electron transfer progress in the present of Al3+ at 505 nm.
But it is difficult to project much progress given the present context which is characterized by government gridlock, political partisanship, mistrust of our major institutions, diminished citizen optimism, heightened individualism, increased inequality, and less overall concern for those in tough socio-economic circumstances.
Based on the progress of the present study, it will be necessary to refine the current therapeutic protocol of the model so that it can be applied clinically.
