Progress has been slow but, in contrast with Iraq, the security outlook has improved a little.
In the area of gene therapy, progress has been slow, but in some cases remarkable.
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There are course lots of reasons (and even more excuses) for why progress has been slow.
Japanese Buddhists have provided financial assistance to build hotels and amenities at the site but progress has been slow.
Political progress has been slow in Egypt, with parliamentary elections scheduled for this spring now postponed with no new date set.
The entire auto industry is moving to outsource bigger chunks of vehicles, but progress has been slow because of union opposition.
Shell has long been dabbling in biofuels, but progress has been slow.
But it can be said that progress has been slow and disappointing.
Demand for more flexible courses is growing, but progress has been slow.
So far progress has been slow, partly because the new arbitration system and bankruptcy court are intended to settle talks that have failed.
But on the vexing issue of taxation, progress has been slow.
Yet progress has been slow: of the relevant age-groups, only 85%, at the latest count, were at primary school, 36% at secondary school, with fewer than 20% in higher education.
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But that progress has been slow, and Dell, which ranks behind HP and Lenovo in PC sales, still gets almost half of its revenue from its desktop and notebook computers.
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Despite the passage of a Help America Vote Act last year, which was supposed to provide money and encouragement for states to modernise their voting systems, progress has been slow.
Although oil-for-food was supposed to start nearly two years ago, progress has been intolerably slow.
As with similar initiatives under way at General Motors and Ford Motor, progress has been glacially slow.
Though the progress has been relatively slow, the forward momentum is there.
While negotiations for the country's full EU membership began in October 2005, progress has been frustratingly slow as countries including Germany and France question Turkey's suitability for EU status.
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"Even where these have had positive effects, progress has been too slow and incremental, and fundamental concerns remain about the competitive structure and performance of these markets, " he said.
As with similar initiatives under way at General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) and Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ), progress has been glacially slow.
Despite a new government, a stronger rupiah and falling interest rates, progress has been far too slow in Indonesia.
Progress on this has been slow, but this week Islamia School in London, set up by Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens, a 1960s pop star), became Britain's first state-financed Muslim school.
Despite intense involvement by Mr Summers, progress in reforming international finance has been slow.
The truth is that nobody wants to acknowledge the unpleasant fact that progress against most cancers has been grudgingly slow.
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