Progressives are wrong to hypostatize their belief in mankind's eternal advance, and to disavow anything that does not fit this preordained vision.

Alger refrains from making explicit evaluations of the stat of the discipline, but his summary of major findings culled from the surveyed publications clearly demonstrates the low level of theoretical achievement: Unrelated oneshot generalizations and bivariate propositions abound, but little effort is spent on pin-pointing their theoretical relevance.

The SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL) [20] describes a message exchange from the point of view of a single service...

Troops stormed the complex.