But these data do also suggest that national results might over-estimate the rate of progress.
Ms Lucas says she doesn't get depressed about the slow rate of progress but "impatient".
For Harvard Business School graduate John Alford, 32, who arrived in June 2006, the rate of progress can be frustrating.
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Moreover, he assumes that the rate of progress can be extrapolated from previous trends, without considering signficiant physical or economic limitations.
In a post this week she predicted that at the current rate of progress, by 2050 Cubans might be allowed satellite television.
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Not just because the intelligence isn't always 100 percent perfect, as we learned in other cases, but also because the rate of progress.
"If this rate of progress continues, it could take 40 years for women to achieve parity with men in corporate officer positions, " Catalyst says.
Top U.S. officials, including President Bush, have said they are disappointed by the Iraqi government's slow rate of progress toward a political resolution of the country's insurgent and sectarian warfare.
Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson may take solace in a clean sheet for his side and the fact they remain top of their group but their slow rate of progress will be a concern.
At the current rate of progress, by 2015 the number of deaths of African children under five will have fallen only to 5m a year, rather than the 2m target set by the MDG.
"It spreads the risk" - this is the assessment of Willie Hofmeyr, the deputy director of National Prosecutions, who says though a "great deal is being done now", he is "disappointed at the slow rate of progress".
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.
There are futurists who are far, far too optimistic about the rate of technological progress, and others who are too vastly too pessimistic.
The World Bank warned recently that temperatures might rise by a catastrophic 4C (7F) above pre-industrial levels, given the rate of political progress.
Since progress so far has fallen far short of this rate of conversion, little confidence is lent that the nation will be able to keep its promise on renewables.
The heart disease death rate has gradually gone down since the 1960s, but much of that progress has been in keeping patients alive once they had heart attacks, not from preventing the initial episode.
The latest QE-program announced by the Bernanke Fed will be tied to the progress of the labor market, which has seen the unemployment rate tick down as a consequence of a falling labor participation rate, rather than truly improved economic conditions.
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Campus Progress played an invaluable role in raising awareness of the student loan interest rate fight by amplifying the message and rallying the troops around the cause.
Although all three versions of the plane are making steady progress, production has not ramped up at the rate Lockheed hoped, and a recent government report on various glitches encountered in development suggests the program is still not ready for high-rate production.
It failed to dent South Africa's progress, however, as Herschelle Gibbs and Kallis kept them comfortably ahead of the required run rate.
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