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Asset manager T. Rowe Price said at the time that even long-term oriented investors benefit from quarterly reports, “because these short-term progress reports increase our confidence in our ability to predict the company’s long-range outcome.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 16, 2025

But it has issued four publicly-available progress reports since it took over administration of the firm.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2024

Until now, the U.N. has periodically issued cautiously optimistic progress reports.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024

Since 2018, the department has undershot its spending plans nearly every quarter, according to quarterly progress reports it publishes online — more than $230 million in total.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

I tell myself that as long as I keep taping my progress reports, nothing will be lost; the record will be complete.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes