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Message   Mike Powell    PAUL QUINN   National Geographic   May 3, 2019
 8:03 PM *  

>IMHO: this is unnatural to a native speaker.  (I don't know where Mike got his
>rule from, although it may be correct for 99.99% of cases in his locale.)  The
>passage should read: "...lack of progress means they are not...".  It could be
>countable, in either the case of there being many (persons) involved, or in
the
>singular case of one person, when speaking of 'their'.  English can be
>annoyingly imprecise at times.  8-)

That is how I would also say it, as lack is singular.  :)

Mike

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