The sentiments subtly change in tone as the series progresses, shifting from loving farewells to giving thanks to helpful friends, including lawyers, to verbal displays of bravura.
"I think we are satisfied with what we have done on the cost side," Mr. Gladden said, adding that the company had made progress shifting toward higher-margin businesses as well.
With the decline of the Greco-Roman realm, scientific progress shifted to the Islamic world.
The fortunes of this war during its progress shifted constantly and were, more frequently than not, adverse to the Romans.
The book contains an intricate divination system - or the ba gua, comprised of four masculine (yang) and four feminine (yin) elements that can be combined into 64 hexagrams that progress cyclically, shifting from yin to yang and back again - that limns temporal progression.
In 1958, however, came the Great Leap Forward, an effort to speed up progress by shifting rural manpower into manufacturing.
"We have to make much more progress in shifting traffic to electric cars, electric buses and bikes," he said.
It has done laudable work in trying to standardise out-of-competition testing, educating athletes about its "strict liability" stance and made progress in shifting cultures and attitudes.
And he said the pace of progress in shifting to a low carbon economy in the past few years had been disappointing.
Despite high-level U.S. attention, there has been little, if any, progress in shifting the balance of power on the ground toward the opposition.
