completion

I grew up in a house where abundant praise was given for completion of the most mundane of tasks.

It cracks me up that all of the early comments on this thread are so insistent that course completion shouldn't be a goal.

The chief legal officer of Newegg _wants_ these cases and to take them to completion in attempts to correct the problems with software patents.

Never, never did it get told that those road trips were only made possible by Eisenhower’s completion of the highway system.

Most importantly, he ran interference when it came to the clients and laid down and enforced very sane timetables for completion of projects and features.

Part of the problem is that if companies hire on the basis of course completion certificates rather than on the basis of demonstrated competence, they will miss out on good workers, and yet hire some lousy workers, and thus be reluctant to offer competitive starting wages.

There are all kinds of startup ventures that never manage to bring their development efforts to completion because of unforeseen technical issues, bad market conditions, lack of funds, and all sorts of other reasons having nothing to do with fraud or other actionable wrongdoing.

If this is true where a venture sells equity interests that are true securities subject to the protections of securities laws, it is doubly true where the only thing being offered is a small perk tied to a development effort that is not guaranteed to be brought to completion or at least that is not guaranteed to be brought to completion within any specified time period.