She helped me understand that America is great not because it isperfect but because it can always be made better - and that theunfinished work of perfecting our union falls to each of us.

He thinks there is unfinished business to deal with.

Yet politicians are quite capable of ignoring even glaringly unfinished business if it suits them.

Ted, spent the decades that followed working patiently on what he called "the great unfinished business of America", and fending off more than his fair share of trouble.

A side benefit is that it sets factories in different parts of the world in competition with one another for new projects, something carmakers have done for years to keep down labour costs.