"We're seeing excruciatingly slow progress from too many universities in some criteria such as ethical investment given the urgency of the climate challenge," says Louise Hazan, who created the People & Planet Green League.
The No Child Left Behind Act, the most interesting reform of American education for a generation, uses a combination of national standards and standardised testing to measure children's progress: if too many children in a particular school fail to hit the required standards, then parents have the right to move them elsewhere.
However, African-Americans have made very little economic progress in too many economic areas.
And despite all of our progress, far too many men and women still grow old living secret lives on the margins of society.
But for all the targets met or nearly met, for all the millions of young lives saved and for all the futures enhanced, we failed to make satisfactory progress toward too many of our goals.
Equal to Ferguson's mots are the Rothschilds' own, as when they complain about being "stared at by the modern argus, the public," dismiss Queen Victoria's writing as "ten thousand times" less interesting than a newspaper or cynically observe that a country's finances "cannot progress without liberties" but progress "even less with too many".
Finally, though you can live with some poor results if you can see signs of progress, there have been too many for a club of United's reputation.
Updated at 2.31am BST 2.13am BST They're back – and at The Blues! Trying to make progress, but there are too many places where it would be criminal not to stop.
Finally, though you can live with some poor results if you can see signs of progress, there have been too many this season for a club of United's reputation with no positive indications of improvement.
CDC Director Tom Frieden applauded the country's progress, but said that too many teens are still having babies.
