Michelle Rhee is an obvious mention here, as she took the schools in Washington, D.C., from pre-basic to basic and got them lined up for further progress.
To lead in the new era of federal retrenchment, localities have to stand up for social progress, defying newly-hostile government officials like Betsy DeVos, broken industries like Big Soda, and the legions of cynical lobbyists they employ to do their dirty work.
Maybe when the volcano rumbles, when the thugs come for our neighbor, when a society gives up the fight for progress, the familiarity of our routines numbs us to the dust and roar of the coming stampede.
Obama closed by urging young Americans to learn from Lewis, whom the president called one of his heroes, by fearlessly taking up the march for progress.
While the lack of climate-policy progress is unquestionably bad news, the failure of both the UN climate negotiations and domestic cap-and-trade policies has opened up new opportunities for progress on our long-stalled climate and energy goals.
Patients are followed-up for their progress, laboratory tests and exposure status related to infections and/or drugs, questions about menopause, hormone therapy and chemotherapy, and interviews for lifestyle factors and family history of cancer.
You also need changes in the energy world that open up space for progress that can deliver simultaneous gains on multiple fronts.
On social media hate speech, at least, Facebook, Google and Twitter got an EC thumbs up for making "steady progress" in the Commission's third review since the introduction of a voluntary Code of Conduct in 2016.
A foreign ministry spokesman, Ma Zhaoxu, said: "I hope the relevant parties will step up efforts and push for progress in the dialogue and negotiations".
