Charles Evans, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, has proposed a plan in which the Fed would announce its intention to accommodate inflation of up to 3% a year as long as the unemployment rate remained above 7%.
It was recognised that, even with the very best of intentions, and a flexible communication strategy capable of accommodating a diverse range of needs, there would be limits to the extent to which all individuals could be effectively informed about all the very many (research) purposes to which their data might be put.
As popular as pedestrian islands are in urban settings these days -- usually constructed with the best of intentions to accommodate the foot traffic that forms the cornerstone of a healthy downtown -- the new construction tends to be a bit fancier, with more monumental features, clearly articulated crosswalks and stormwater management design in the form of bioswales or rain gardens.
By approaching the founders' intentions in a fundamentalist way, scholars ahistorically play down the evolving values that the United States Constitution has proved so capable of accommodating.
Most have some way of accommodating nonsmokers.
Astor Hall, capable of accommodating 750 revelers, was gridlocked.
On Wednesday the producers of "Made in Heaven," a comedy that opened at the SoHo Playhouse on Nov. 2, said that they had no intention of vacating the theater to accommodate "The Emperor Jones," starring John Douglas Thompson, above, which is supposed to begin previews there on Dec. 15.
As trousers grow skinnier, our mobile phones are following suit, as evidenced by the ultraslim iPhone 4. But the U.S. Treasury, alas, has no intention of altering the design of its coins to accommodate America's evolving fashion sense.
The Democrats have already removed many of their most meaningful reforms to accommodate a negotiating partner who has no intention of negotiating.
Mr. Levy, who stood with the mayor in the Blue Room at City Hall, said that he told Mr. Bloomberg in January when they first spoke that he had no intention of staying for the long haul and was happy to accommodate the mayor by staying on as he searched for a new chancellor.
