In fact, they have spent rather less than he first asked them to.
When he was first diagnosed, I asked him when he knew to go to the doctor.
First, he asked people who knew individual animals well to describe them with lots of different adjectives.
First, he asked what he needed to do to placate a public that views him as soft on defense.
Among the first questions he was asked was why, as a proud "Virginia" businessman, he'd located his business in Mississippi.
He asked the First Minister to take the opportunity to defend the national industry and urge fisheries control to be given back to Scotland.
First, he asked the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to prohibit Swift Boat vets from airing ads questioning his performance before and after he left Vietnam.
He famously asked his first wife, his high school geometry teacher for a divorce, when she was in the hospital with uterine cancer, Gingrich held himself to standards.
He surrounded himself with seasoned if fractious advisers, and during his first weekend in Washington he asked Seward to look over his Inaugural Address.
"He was the first salesman who asked questions about the business side, " says James O'Donnell, his mentor, who cofounded Mackenzie Financial.
The First Minister said he has asked the Royal Mail for clarity so he can maximise the help they give to post offices under threat.
He ran a similar experiment but first asked people to remember their relevant past experiences.
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And that sort of manifested itself on that first morning when he very kindly asked me if I'd like a drink of water and got me some water, and then just minutes later repeated that question, and then repeated it again and again over that first day we were together.
It was characteristic that when he greeted his flock for the first time, Pope Francis blessed them, but only after he had asked them to pray with him - and for him.
But when a new BBC chairman, Marmaduke Hussey, was appointed he was reportedly asked to "sort out" the corporation and one of the first things he did was ask Milne to go in January 1987.
Schmidt asked Kherchtou what he told his first interrogator about el Hage 2.5 years ago in Kenya.
"For his first goal, he couldn't have asked for better timing, " Julien said.
His talents as a presenter were first established in 1991, when he was asked to work for BBC Sport.
David Davies (Conservative, Monmouth) asked the First Minister if he felt no shame in betraying a manifesto commitment and closing down post offices.
Tavish Scott, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader asked the first minister if he would refer John Swinney to his Independent Advisers George Reid and Lord Steel.
The Labour leader Iain Gray asked the first minister why he had not scrapped student debt and whether the SNP had ever intended to fulfil its promise to students.
David McLetchie asked the first minister whether he would agree with the comments of the president of the National Association of Schoolmasters who say education for the majority is being seriously hampered by the bad behaviour of a minority.
He said it was the first time people had been asked to pay for their own preventative healthcare.
At the first cabinet council Bonaparte was asked what he intended to do.
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On the BBC Radio Wales Phone In, First Minister Carwyn Jones was asked whether he would welcome Lord Elis-Thomas to his party.
He asked to borrow my helmet for his first game back after that, and hooked the first bouncer that came in out of the ground.
He has used an edition of the play with the original punctuation of the first performance which he found liberating, and he asked the actors to speak the words as if they were touching a musical instrument so that each rhyme might have a different sound.
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Portillo seemed fine at first, then asked to be held because he felt dizzy.
When Thompson was first running for the Senate in 1994, he was asked during a debate whether he would support or oppose laws that prohibit abortions for convenience.
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