The simple throttle plate has continued to perform admirably, even as the systems that supplied gasoline progressed from the crude evaporative contraptions of a century ago to today's brainy electronic fuel-injection systems.
Although the highly portable and cost-effective stethoscope has served medicine admirably and with relatively little conceptual modification for the better part of two centuries, our computer-aided ability to detect, filter, classify and record sonic information has progressed immeasurably beyond what the stethoscope can do.
All told, they're a work in progress, with an admirably solid foundation: in the wake of the loosening of restrictions on membership and new rules whereby they can compete with banks in terms of interest rates, fresh FSA regulations are due to come into force next year, aiming to reduce the number of failures.
Latterly, the lack of progress has been for admirably conservationist reasons, and Menorca remains a subtle, understated place.
The joy of its output is that, as a chap who lives in southern England, I am admirably well informed about the progress of Scottish football teams, the workings of the Welsh health service, and the internal machinations of the Stormont assembly.
The dean's office reported on the lad's progress: "Not only has he been conducting himself admirably in school work, but he has won distinction in other fields of effort.
And, just as admirably, he never tips his hand as the competition's elimination rounds progress.
Sorry, it is shit, for those people in the industry still going through hell (and admirably refusing to let it adversely affect their essential work) because of some progress-retardant pricks on the internet who truly believe that a video game must conform to this, that, and the other set of archaic parameters.
