The ear canal wall was reconstructed with several pieces of curved bony plates placed on the preserved canal wall and tegmen tympani.
In theory, having financiers on the New York Fed's board should help the president be Washington's eyes and ears on Wall Street.
Johnson has a mischievous love of the surprise, ear-popping wall of sound – a task to which she set producer Rich Costey on almost every track.
Stackhouse added, "I was like, 'Who do you think you're talking to?' " He said he was still upset — "smoke coming out of my ears" — when Wall found him in the parking lot after the game.
Since he hung out his shingle in 1965 with a few other graduates from New York University's law school, Mr. Lipton has been whispering advice into the ears of Wall Street executives during their times of maximum legal stress.
The company, McDonald Information Services, or M.I.S., of Jersey City, calls itself "the eyes and ears of Wall Street," and keeps large databases on the activities of financial services employees and customers.
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who is now chosen by the bank's board and serves as the central bank's eyes and ears on Wall Street, would be appointed by the president of the United States for a five-year term.
With the current Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., and Mr. Bernanke, Mr. Geithner — who as head of the New York Fed is the central bank's eyes and ears on Wall Street — has been part of a troika that has struggled this year to contain the credit crisis.
If they are talking about it in Davos, perhaps there will be more open ears on Wall Street, and ultimately, Main Street.
Of course, it must have been hard playing it by ear over the wall-to-wall pyrotechnics.
