Their office suite -- which has been deluged with incoming messages from nervous donors asking for progress reports or offering advice -- is also the site of the weekly strategy sessions, which have up to roughly 25 representatives from other Republican groups active this campaign season, participants say.
"I'm not asking for perfection; I'm asking for progress," Cane said.
"People used to ask for quarterly progress reports, and I had to struggle to get funding renewed," said Mr. Duggal, who joined G.E. in 1992.
On Tuesday, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who is trying the case in federal court here, called lawyers from both sides to his chambers to ask for a progress report on the settlement talks, which have been under way since Nov. 30.
On the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, it is fitting to ask for a progress report.
"That resolution did not ask for hints of progress or minor concessions.
Congressional committees, while supporting the Pentagon's development of hybrid-electric power for vehicles like the robots the Army wants, have asked for periodic progress reports, citing worries that they might not function well in extreme cold.
Manager Joe Torre twisted his face a little when asked for a progress report on the Yankees, the countenance of a chef who knows what he is tasting is not exactly right.
By writing together it's possible to get a whole class writing happily, and at some stage they'll be content and confident enough with their stories to want to be let free to write without being asked for regular progress reports.
