31.   The secretaries of defense, navy and interior and the attorney general described dramatic progress against the drug trade in an annual joint appearance before journalists.

32.   The theory states when inflation is relatively low, as it currently is, policymakers should wait for unforeseen recessions to make more progress against inflation.

33.   We were next to the car we were passing but not making much progress against it.

34.   Worse, there is evidence that progress against the most severe poverty slowed during a period of fantastic national growth.

35.   Pace said U.S. special forces working with opposition forces in northern Afghanistan were reporting progress against the Taliban near the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.

36.   Petitions are circulating and e-mail campaigns are in progress against bringing Shas into the new government.

37.   Rebels claim the government troops are making little progress against them.

38.   An official was cautiously optimistic about continuing progress against the wildfire.

39.   Bob Weiner, spokesman for White House drug policy director Barry McCaffrey, cited progress against serious drug use.

40.   But most experts say progress against the Cali cartel and other traffickers resulted mainly from law-enforcement efforts rather than financial sanctions.