Even though the legal issues have not been resolved, the inquiry is already achieving some of its goals merely by raising questions.
BERLIN — Google is allowing privacy regulators in France, Germany and Spain to inspect Internet data that the company improperly collected for its street mapping service, but those reviews, so far, show no sign of resolving the inquiries into its surveillance.
The agreement, announced on Thursday, will allow the company to resolve the criminal inquiry without facing charges, which could have made it difficult for Skanska and its parent, Skanska USA Civil Inc., ranked among the nation's top 10 contractors, to win public contracts.
Ms. Sulzbach said she was quitting so that she would not be a distraction to Trevor Fetter, the new chief executive, as he attempts to resolve the government's inquiries.
He said if the dispute was not resolved, the abuse inquiry would have to be suspended.
White House officials refused to discuss any grand jury developments or whether employees had been contacted or subpoenaed, but they affirmed President Bush's commitment to resolve the four-month-old inquiry.
In his letter, he expressed hope that the court of inquiry would "resolve the questions and uncertainties surrounding this tragedy".
The inquiries' outcomes will also resolve the tug of war between the US and the commission.
The only problem is that, given Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh's promise at the Symposium's outset that my talk would resolve all the inquiries he posed about the current struggle for marriage equality, I once again have been made to feel like the youngest child at Passover, but with five challenging questions instead of four to answer.
The GMC inquiry is unlikely to resolve the rows about Wakefield's work.
