TEHRAN — Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rowhani, painted a bleak picture of the country's economy on Monday, blaming the departing administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for high inflation and unemployment, and saying it "has left much work to be done".
It avoided regulation of banks and mortgage brokers, leaving much of that work to the Federal Reserve, which, under Alan Greenspan, showed little appetite for regulation.
Russian leaders are used to behaving like tsars, as well as being regarded like them: taking big decisions but leaving much of the work, and the attendant unpopularity, to ministers.
Or will the promise of these fresh troops also be undermined by desertion, poor leadership and the established pattern of leaving much of the most dangerous work to Western hands?
The Republicans have traditionally focused more on advertising campaigns than on voter turnout operations, leaving much of that gritty trench work to religious conservatives, like the Christian Coalition, or single-issue groups, like the National Rifle Association.
Editing out all of them might not leave much to work with.
Today's versions are effectively complete representations of the genome but leave much more work to be done.
Husbands of employed women do somewhat more housework and child care, but they still leave much of the work and most of the responsibility to their wives.
He took part in few public events and left much of the work to his ministers, especially in his final term.
In the 18 months since his company, America Online, acquired the media giant Time Warner for $165 billion in stock, Stephen M. Case has left much of the work of integrating the companies and fulfilling their lofty promises to his prominent lieutenant, Robert W. Pittman.
