I had rushed over from the office, and my bag still held the notebook from that morning's meeting.The finance officer presented the project account's funding arrangement to everyone present. The money already recovered went first to the necessary structural repairs. Other sources and the remaining shortfall were listed separately. Going forward, the accounts would be published on the agreed schedule, and any major adjustments would go through the decision process set out in the agreement.Someone asked, "Can you guarantee when it will be finished?"I looked at the schedule."Right now, I can't guarantee that," I said. "As the inspections finish and the funding comes in, we update at each step."When my mother made budgets, she always wrote in the margins: Do what can be done first. State clearly what cannot.This time, I did it the way she wrote.After a while, the windows went into the activity room.On my next visit, the floor hadn't been laid yet. The site supervisor brought out tw
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