Learning that a secret immigration hearing was scheduled for Nov. 19, Mr. Wynne thought a resolution was at hand.
As talks with the White House got underway Saturday, McConnell appeared briefly with Boehner to assure the nation that a resolution was at hand.
But it may take some time before any clear direction is evident or resolution is at hand.
Now a solution is at hand.
"We have gone through episodes recently where the market thought that a resolution was close at hand," Mr. Lanski said, referring to the Greek debt crisis.
Last week, Senator John McCain, the chairman of the International Republican Institute, left a meeting in Cairo with Egypt's top military rulers assured that a resolution was close at hand, people briefed on the meeting said.
(And, if so, he reasoned, was that not in itself a kind of love?) Whatever the case, a resolution was not close at hand, and the relationship dragged on for three and a half years.
Your resolution is at 50%.
For their part, city officials say a resolution may be at hand.
