As it has for more than two centuries, progress will come in fits and starts.
He started the family company in 1983, and for years growth came in fits and starts.
You need to stay front of mind consistently over time, not just in fits and starts.
Those are the bare bones of a narrative that proceeds in fits and starts.
It may come in fits and starts, at a pace that can be slow and frustrating.
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In fits and starts, America is heading toward the promise of competitive energy markets.
Rather science progresses in fits and starts, with many avenues terminating as blind alleys.
Prosperity's return to Japan, after 15 years of economic woe, is coming in fits and starts.
You realize how far they have to go, and that it will go in fits and starts.
Reform has come in fits and starts since doi moi began but, at present, Vietnam's palpable success encourages boldness.
Still, Facebook's progress in mobile is coming in fits and starts, as underlined by the company's recent Poke mobile app.
Personalization is the future of the Web, and travel booking sites have been adding such features in fits and starts.
It has been trying to recover, in fits and starts, ever since.
Oblivious, Charlotte continues talking in fits and starts about her new business.
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We enjoy the fruits of prejudice and bigotry being lifted -- slowly, sometimes in fits and starts, but irrevocably -- from human hearts.
That vastly changed media world will come in fits and starts, incremental steps that in some cases will be made by newcomers like Oxygen.
We may get there in fits and starts, and everybody may scream each time we do it, but the deficit is going to come down.
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American connoisseurs took to the Pacifics in fits and starts.
Since then, albeit in fits and starts, the labour movement has marginalised its politicised left and concentrated its attention on the bread-and-butter issues of wages, hours and benefits.
The University of Texas scientists pointed out that normally, icebergs move south from Greenland in fits and starts, frequently grounding in the shallow waters off Labrador and Newfoundland.
The only timetable you can count on is an uneven, long lasting period of political volatility that will thrust oil prices up in fits and starts.
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But the 3G wireless utopia the wireless industry has been promising has only arrived in fits and starts, with little to show for all the hype it has generated.
As a result, the strategy rolled out in fits and starts, and failed to generate the urgency and excitement required to make it stick with either customers or employees.
Construction on the steel, fiberglass and concrete structure was completed in fits and starts, as Father Zawadzki, a priest at a nearby church, sought donations to keep the project going.
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Third, stable growth is better, other things equal, than growth that moves in fits and starts and again, better especially for the poor, who are the first to suffer in economic downturns.
One northern Wisconsin company, which bought its fuel in Minnesota, said it changed 50 fuel filters in a month to no avail, as its fleet of trucks ran in fits and starts .
The economy is recovering in fits and starts.
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