Such is the political pressure to be seen doing something, however, that Congress is unlikely to wait for the final report before acting.
Eager as they are to be seen doing the right thing, Messrs Dinallo and Spitzer should wait to see graver danger than this before they meddle in private contracts.
On one recent visit to this exuberant survey, a group of kindergartners could be seen doing just that under a bright-red cube originally conceived by Tsuruko Yamazaki for an outdoor festival in 1956, and reconstructed here.
"Given BP's desire to be seen to be doing the right thing, it may well suspend the dividend until after the well is plugged and the cleanup completed, " said Evolution Securities analyst Richard Griffith.
Politicians, determined not to be seen as doing favours for Wall Street, might blunt the programme's effect in the name of protecting the taxpayer.
It was thought that you would be seen to be doing something, and secondly it might have an effect on interfering on what they were trying to do.
However, they do need to be seen to be doing something and may also be compelled to take action against particularly popular servers in order to protect their revenues.
"To compete, other Asian countries would want to be seen as also doing something that makes them attractive to foreign investors, " says Nicholas Brooks of Peregrine Securities in Singapore.
The government has set up a new quango in response, which is what governments do when they don't want to be seen to be doing nothing, but expect an issue to go away of its own accord.
Being seen to be doing his job, and doing it well, is worth a thousand rallies.
For the moment, though, all that matters is that the politicians are seen to be doing something.
Some economists have argued that this latest injection of extra cash will not be seen for another two years, doing little to boost the economy in the short term, when growth continues to be broadly flat.
He scored hugely in music, both on the production and retail sides with Virgin Records (the Sex Pistols were signed to his label early on) and he famously donned a white wedding gown to promote Virgin Brides, something you would be unlikely to have seen Mitt Romney doing for Bain Capital.
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It also remains to be seen whether other global-health bodies are doing better, though that may become evident soon.
Yoshikai Masanori, deputy director general of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, warned that there could be capital flight from economies that were seen as not doing enough to overcome the problem.
And instead of trying to prop up prices using intervention schemes, as Brazil and other coffee producers have been doing recently, low prices should be seen as an ally: eventually they will drive out inefficient producers elsewhere, and Brazil will be able to increase its earnings through greater volumes.
One level is the short term--what should we be doing immediately so that some of the really bad things we have seen won't be as easy to pull off or as likely to occur, such as the Madoff case.
Plaid who've been told by their own senior members - let's take a flying leap here and assume they were talking about Dafydd Elis-Thomas AM and former AM and party chair Helen Mary Jones - that they're doing badly in elections precisely because they're seen to be too close to the Tories.
"Since McCain is still seen as the best candidate to handle terrorism and Iraq, he might be doing much better in the polls today if the economy hadn't muscled national security issues out of the top spot, " Holland said.
He and his wife and their two boys and girl could often be seen playing outside and taking walks, "They are very good parents, always doing things with their kids, " said Marchell Watson, a retired public-transit worker and neighbor, who said the Richard children loved her dogs, named Diva and Lady Gaga.
However, he said professionals felt under pressure because of the "fear of being seen to be labelling abuse when it isn't there" and often held back from doing so until the signs were irrefutable.
And to the extent that we can partner with Congress to lock some of those good habits in and end some of the bad habits that we've seen in the past, that's something that we'll be very interested in doing.
The seen is the comfortable lives of Washington bureaucrats, but the unseen concerns what they might be doing in a more dynamic world marked by success and failure.
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Whether Medco manages to hold on to other contracts possibly under review remains to be seen but this investor appears to be content to spend a relatively small 80-cent premium to bank on it doing so.
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