He said the trip would "basically set a marker while everybody waits for the next president," while other analysts predicted the most Mr. Bush could accomplish would be to hand over a working peace process to his successor.
The case is the first of its kind in Hong Kong, and it mirrors one in the United States in which Ernst & Young's rival, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, is fighting a request from U.S. regulators to hand over work papers from its audit of the Chinese computer company Longtop Financial Technologies.
First, thanks to the spread of the internet, along with cheap and abundant telecommunications bandwidth, businesses are able to hand over more white-collar work to specialist outside suppliers, in the same way as manufacturers are doing already.
Referring to her father, she said: "When he handed over his work, he put his trust in his successors and let them mature on the job.
The FBI found that contrary to her repeated claims, Clinton had received classified material, her server was susceptible to attack and her aides had not handed over all work-related emails.
Wearing ragged sneakers and paint-smeared canvas pants, Arno showed up at The New Yorker's offices and handed over his work to a young man just two years older than he named Philip Wylie, who acted as a liaison between the editors and contributing artists.
Another time, when Isherwood told Kathleen that he had handed over a work of his to Upward for a critique, she proudly reported on the novelist's praise: Upward "thinks it very good, much the best thing he has done — I am so glad — (C. thinks so much of his opinion)." She was also remarkably tolerant of his relationships with men.
Their other functions, such as protecting doctors' rights and self-regulation, were handed over to work units and health administration.
I've worked with a range of authors - some provide detailed Photoshop creations, others hand over abstract works in colored crayon (yes, really).
'The state and the directors of the art museum simply did not want to hand over the works, whatever the moral right or wrong,' said Lucette Ter Borg, a journalist and author who has spent a decade researching the case.
