The bond struck by Jake and Tony forms the heart of the picture – and to watch that connection come under fire from circumstances that are out of their control is deeply moving.
Moreover, the owner avoids selling the asset quickly under "fire sale" circumstances, which might result in a significant loss of real value.
"They should be fired in circumstances when the use of deadly force would be the only alternative," said Mr. Cox.
"If you took off somebody who had fired in circumstances that had been found to be reasonable, however difficult," explains Blair, "what we would always be frightened of is that it would make the next officer hesitate, just for that fraction of a second.
The new law allows the state to deny unemployment insurance to people who were fired under circumstances like lying on job applications, destroying company property, endangering the safety of co-workers and using drugs or alcohol and on the job.
And when a child, in a playground, is maimed or killed in the cross-fire, a circumstance that seems to have been repeated over and over this past summer — in the Bronx, in Brooklyn, in Upper Manhattan — there seems little reason to try to change his mind.
Under normal circumstances, fire is not part of the ecology of the damp, humid rain forest.
The automaker said if "commercially available lubricants" were used to fix the problem, the switch could melt "and lead to a fire under some circumstances".
The journalist, Yves Debay, 58, was killed Thursday in Aleppo, apparently by sniper fire, though the circumstances of his death remain unclear.
The dispute over responsibility for the Aug. 18 fire and the circumstances that led to the deaths of the firefighters, Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino, involves a diverse group of entities.
