If she and her contemporaries spearheaded an era of progress in which different ethnicities were celebrated on magazine covers and catwalks, the past decade has seen the proportion of non-white faces on a downward trajectory.
Significant progress, much of it spearheaded by the Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been made in the areas of teaching methods and skills, evaluation techniques, faculty development, computer usage, teaching recognition, counseling for the fourth-year student, and an integrated curriculum in women's health.
But then came war with Israel, and the law died.A conservative tide spearheaded by Islamic fundamentalists has since stalled women's progress.
In his operating room, Palm handhelds spearheaded the development of new ways to track the progress of tiny hearts.
Here are five reasons why: History shows that progress in improving conditions in the world is spearheaded by determined individuals, and groups that support the vision and strategies of those leaders.
Packaging his inconvenient truths with as much humor as he can muster under the circumstances, Mr. Creadon balances his talking heads and pie charts with the folksy progress of the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, a grass-roots effort spearheaded by David M. Walker, the former comptroller general of the United States, and Robert L. Bixby of the Concord Coalition.
They are similar men, polite, urbane and rather tougher than you might imagine, who have known each other for the best part of two decades since Eriksson, in the midst of his serene progress through Italian football, arrived in 1992 to coach Sampdoria, whose attack was spearheaded by Mancini and Gianluca Vialli.
But stiff opposition from the oil industry – spearheaded by the powerful American Petroleum Institute (API) and strongly supported by the US multinational ExxonMobil – has stalled progress on enacting the act.
But the supporters of the repeal measure, Proposition 28, spearheaded by a national chain of retail cigarette stores called Cigarettes Cheaper!, want to stop the impressive progress California is making.
There was hope that this could progress with the recent US led talks which were underpinned by a hugely ambitious economic plan spearheaded by Mr Blair".
