Word: ajar
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...Leaving the door ajar is one thing Greenspan has always known how to do, and anyone expecting a rate-policy telegraph Friday from the FOMC was deluding themselves. But whether it's the prospect of the end of his long tenure as Fed head - his term runs out in June 2004 - or just his place at the center of some truly historic economic times, Greenspan has become rather fond of telling the story of the last few years, and he tells it pretty lucidly for a man who spent the first ten years of his chairmanship elevating inscrutable "Fed-speak...
...actually warned against such sweeping assumptions, saying each case must be examined on its own merits. "An individualized assessment of the effect of an impairment is particularly necessary when the impairment is one whose symptoms vary widely from person to person," the court said. The door was left firmly ajar for future challenges, as well: the Justices, who sent the case back to a lower court for reconsideration, also declined to rule on whether work is itself considered an "everyday task," and thereby included under the ADA umbrella. (The ADA applies to all workplaces, public and private, with more than...
Richard Ellman, a biographer of James Joyce, once wrote of the enigmatic Irishman, “He does not wish to conquer us, but have us conquer him. There are, in other words, no invitations, but the door is ajar.” Indeed, upon taking a seat for Boston’s Huntington Theatre’s production of James Joyce’s The Dead, one feels as though one has just stepped through an open door into a world where entire families really do assemble for the holidays, really do sing and really do celebrate the dead...
...Officers responded to Newell Boathouse after the door to the trophy room was reported to have been pried open. Officers spoke with an administrator and found that nothing was missing from the room and decided that the door may have been left ajar...
...prolong the length of their little boy's "innocence," my parents stooped to spectacular deceit on Christmas Day 1985. Having already safely planted the presents and consumed the milk and cookies, my parents procured a dollop of cotton from the medicine cabinet, and affixed this to a partially-ajar fireplace door. Catching sight of this bit of "evidence" the next morning, I was aghast. I approached the fireplace gingerly, treating the vicinity like a crime scene. I barely wanted to touch the cotton, for fear of disrupting the original confirmation of this landmark discovery. My parents suggested that Santa caught...