He had gone through the trial by fire of his first interview, and it looked like he would emerge unscathed.
The other two-thirds of homeowners who have gone through the trial program and made the necessary payments remain in limbo.
"To be truthful, I see it go through the trials and probably right up to the Games," she said.
Chang W. Lee, a New York Times photographer, intends to follow the athletes over the next year as they go through the trials of physical reinvention.
"Part of that is just growing and living, suffering and failing and going through the trials of life, having a wife and kids.
An urgent review of this should be undertaken for the benefit of future victims who should not have to go through the trials and tribulations that the Omagh families did.
"I am sure many of you are going through the trials and tribulations of being around the subway construction," Dr. Horodniceanu said sympathetically, the faint sound of jackhammers in the distance.
Small companies often take on partners to help pay the cost of such trials, but "we are going to go through the trials on our own," said Ran Nussbaum, managing director of Pontifax, an Israeli venture capital fund that is backing MacroCure.
"I've always felt," he was saying now, with the British Open's claret jug in his arms, "that if you can win golf tournaments, whether it be a junior club championship, ladies club championship, the Players Championship, the Japan Open, I've always felt that if you go through the trials and tribulations throughout a four-day tournament and win, that can only benefit you in the long run".
