But budget cuts have reduced its staff by 45 percent since 1998, and there has been little concrete progress.

He reiterated the Iranian demand that concrete progress must be made soon.

Meetings in Islamabad last month produced no concrete progress on nuclear security.

Some outside experts agree that the concrete progress has been made.

For this reason, it's vital that we find a way to make concrete progress immediately.

Without concrete progress, the search has been cut to a few teams.

They agreed to take stock of concrete progress before meeting again in Paris in early 2005.

We need concrete progress in important areas, of which I will cite just a few.

Now that raises all sorts of expectations and people will be looking for concrete progress in the coming months.

There is currently concrete progress which points to real hope in this area.