"The president is pleased with the progress we are making through the high-level working groups," Mr. McClellan said.
When he visited Tokyo in November, President Obama agreed to a high-level working group to consider the Futenma question.
Instead, the leaders created a high-level working group to examine the issue and report back when they meet next year.
As my reporting progressed, I found myself delighted by the notion of high-level working Hollywood writers using Jung to get through pitch meetings.
The European Union, the United States and their remaining allies on human rights (such as the Latin American democracies) should form a high-level working group to prepare for the review.
As late as April 2003, the idea of removing prisoners' clothing was proposed again in a report by a high-level working group, although its members acknowledged that "knowledge of this technique may have a significant adverse impact on public opinion".
"There needs to be a global effort on sports betting integrity and this is something that the International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has taken a lead on, heading up a high-level working group that I sit on.
The State Education Department released a brief statement on Monday saying that the education commissioner, John B. King Jr., had convened a high-level working group in mid-July to begin an immediate review of "all aspects of the state's testing system".
A so-called high-level working group including Mr. Kirk and Mr. De Gucht spent most of a year discussing the framework for talks; it issued its report Wednesday after a delay of several months.
King, according to the statement, "created a high-level working group led by Valerie Grey, Executive Deputy Commissioner, to begin an immediate review of all aspects of the state's testing system".
In 2006, with help from UNICEF, the President's administration created a high-level working group on system reform.
