The RESTORE Act, which was signed into law as part of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Public Law 112-141), established a mechanism for providing funding to the Gulf region to restore ecosystems and rebuild local economies damaged by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
WHITEHOUSE: Executive Order -- Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration
She herself has said that the 'courts are the special friend of liberty ... the dynamics of our rule of law enables enviable social progress and mobility.
Sound money, low taxes, the rule of law, minimal government interference and open trade are core principles of economic progress.
Opponents of the law also want to obstruct progress on implementation as much as possible while they try to get it repealed or dismantled.
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The new inductees included Gordon Moore, the co-founder of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel (and most famous for his Moore's Law, which predicted the rate of semiconductor progress), and Carver Mead, who did much of the work that made it possible to pack tens of thousands of transistors onto a single silicon chip.
And after decades of slow, steady, extraordinary progress, women have written equal opportunity into the law again and again, giving generations of girls a future worthy of their potential.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- Women's History Month, 2013
Paul Collier, an Oxford professor, has asserted that democracy in the absence of other desirables, like the rule of law, can hobble a country's progress.
We've made a lot of progress as a nation since the act first became law.
There had been some progress in "registration and application of the EVAW law, " the report said, referring to the 2009 law on Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Progress in many areas of ICT follows Moore's law, they write, which suggests that circuit performance should double every 1-2 years.
If you're strict about it, this type of progress fails to meet the requirements of Moore's Law, which originally set the precedent that the density of transistors on a chip (i.e. not just their total number) ought to double every two years.
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Take our Forbes Beltway Index, which tracks the market progress of the big contractors, government-sponsored enterprises and companies benefiting from federal law.
States have complained, of course, that the law is too rigid, that it does not take into account the progress that kids make over time, not just year to year.
But progress has been achieved in the sense that some parts of that overall framework oil and gas law have been approved.
And as I've already said, I think there are a lot of elements involved in it, and what I want to do is to bring together law enforcement, community leaders, faith leaders, elected officials of every level to see how we can make continued progress.
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