In a message dated 5/12/99 1:35:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, naman+@PITT.EDU
writes:
>
> Perhaps this person was in charge of updating the maps of Belgrade and
> stopped
> updating them because nobody had asked for a map for six months. Some time
> later, we whack the Chinese Embassy.
(chuckle). Well, not exactly. I would suggest that an updated map is a work
product, an end result to be passed on to someone else, not a report (i.e., a
statement of the status of something or other).
A report in this context (which I failed to define) would be "X maps updated
this month, representing a 15% increase over last month and a 4.3% decrease
from this month last year. Maps updated YTD: 435, a 12.% decrease from the
same period last FY." And so on (grin, duck, and run!).