Mr. Boyce now has three other mouths to feed -- a wife, a 4-year-old son and a 20-month-old daughter born with birth defects requiring operations and daily therapy -- and he wrestles over whether he ever should have moved to Atlanta.
To keep the negotiations from deadlocking, the two sides took off the table many issues that they had usually wrestled over right up until deadline.
But in 2008 Ms. Mays's position at a pharmaceuticals company was eliminated, and she wrestled over whether to return to Houston or stay in New York.
Rarely did he and his brother just shove each other in the back of the family car over who was crowding whom, or wrestle over a toy firetruck.
Now, in the last days of his presidency, those reforms exemplify Obama's successes and shortcomings as he wrestled with Republicans over his economic agenda for six years.
As he wrestled with the decision over whether to leave NASA, the Obama administration made the decision to scrap Constellation and Ares I.
Ever since Mr. Blair took office six years ago, he and Mr. Brown have wrestled over the question of Britain joining the euro.
Since he returned from the White House last fall to run for mayor, Mr. Emanuel has toned down his sometimes biting, outspoken style, but many people here are waiting to see whether the tone will flip back as he begins wrestling over policies with the city's 50 aldermen.
