progress; advance; improvement; development
to be delighted; to be glad; to congratulate; to gratefully accept
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of
to yell; to rant; to rave
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
and; thereupon; because of that
offering (e.g. to the gods); votive offering
everybody; every last one of them; all
interval; space; valley; gorge; loophole (in a wall); crenel
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
hoarse voice; husky voice
to soak into; to permeate
change; alteration; modification
going upstream; sailing against the current
putting into operation; invocation
environmentally damaging (indiscriminate) development
standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum
decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing
to rest (from work, studying, etc.); to take a break
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
measurement error; calculation error
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
circulatory system (blood, lymph, etc.)
duration; continuance; survival; persistence; retention
science fiction; sci-fi; SF
absurd; nonsensical; preposterous
to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. joke)
true character; true heart; true spirit
finally; after; following; at the end (of)
place; room; margin; scope
in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
operation (of machine); operating; running; working