1.   The consultants had been working to finish a report this week.

2.   Alabama, American Samoa, Guam and the Virgin Islands have the most work to finish, the report said.

3.   All three companies are also working to finish contingency plans to restore power quickly in case of an outage.

4.   Then there was the time her father was working to finish a catered dinner when a man wandered into the kitchen and asked for a glass of water.

5.   They have been working to finish the ground floor, where they have a sitting room and a large kitchen.

6.   For much of this week, lower-level ASEAN finance officials worked to finish the first surveillance report.

7.   George W. Bush and his camp retreated into a wait-and-see stance Thursday as the Texas governor worked to finish planning his White House staff.