We don't have the systems in place to know what the problem is, to know what the progress is, and to maximize the likelihood of the best outcome.
But what is different is the speed of technological progress since the mid-1990s, from the Internet and e-mail to cell phones and instant messaging.
General PETER PACE (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff): We need to give ourselves a good honest scrub about what is working and what is not working, what are the impediments to progress and what should we change about the way we're doing it to ensure that we get to the objective that we've set for ourselves.
Has the President invited President Karzai to come and tell NATO in person what the progress is?
So what is the harm in giving some progress report, that you're more optimistic now than you were last week that this deal will get done?
Ask the young and educated what they want from their government and the answer is progress.
We tend in this town to spend most of our time focusing on what we don't agree on, and I think, as I said earlier, the model of a lame duck session where people can have a civil conversation sitting at the same table making progress on issues is I think what the American people are looking for.
In the case of the computer the question is what progress is not being made while we wait.
Finally another Conservative peer, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington, asked what progress the government is making on reducing household food waste.
Other Singaporeans have criticized Yale professors for what they say is failing to recognize the progress Singapore has made over the years in allowing greater freedoms.
Those commitments will then be subject to a international consultation and analysis, similar to, for example, what takes place when the WTO is examining progress or lack of progress that countries are making on various commitments.
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If the upper Mississippi must await progress with limits, what hope is there further down the river?
While there is still a long way to go, the progress to date is far beyond what most observers thought possible a year ago.
So I think that the process of who leads Egypt will be determined by Egyptians, but what we need to see now is continued progress by the Egyptian government to make these important real changes that demonstrate progress for the people.
Compromise in the name of progress is impossible when neither side can hear what the other is trying to say or when each side begins with the belief that the other is either morally deficient or wildly unrealistic.
With little large scale implementation studies and weak outcomes, what is the guarantee that RtI is really better or that it really does accelerate progress?
But BT, which has long been aggrieved at the stick it gets over what some consider the slow progress of its broadband rollout, is hitting back.
In terms of the markets, I think what the markets want to see is progress.
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What that is based on is how we view the progress that the talks have made.
There is a little evidence that this could improve pupils' progress, but what may happen, given the current problems in recruiting teachers, is that a large class with an experienced and capable teacher is split into two, with half of the pupils being taken by a less experienced and perhaps less capable teacher.
What has reinforced the conviction of both governments that progress is now possible was last week's well-timed, but nonetheless historic, verdict of the Independent Monitoring Commission.
Or perhaps, maybe a better way to put it would be what do you think the data shows about where the progress is?
Shared values-based education is what starts the drumbeat for a movement and sets the pace towards progress.
Mr. Osborne was forced to admit he has made virtually no progress this year in cutting what is likely to be the biggest budget deficit in Europe, at an estimated 7.7% of GDP.
Can you tell us what kind of progress the Biden gun group, if you will, is making?
The problem is that fluctuating, although essentially unrealized, losses during a bad market period can mask substantial progress from conventional business, and that is what happened in the first quarter.
"It is a language for figuring out what gets in the way of change and progress, " says Todd Pierce, former CIO of biotechnology company Genentech, who says it helped his management team resolve core issues in a matter of hours.
Because what I'm interested is not just change for the sake of change, but progress.
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