For the first time, buying her son the educational materials and the laptop he needs to be home-schooled – the option she has chosen because of his condition – is now a workable prospect.
Targeting and segmenting populations into workable demographics is now considered a necessary way of identifying potential buyers, yet it leads marketers to think of customers as disembodied data rather than individuals.
Robert Mundell's 1961 theory of "optimum currency areas", which lays out the conditions for a workable currency union, is now often cited by the euro's critics.
But the evidence is now overwhelming that there isn't workable competition in California's power market, and that the actions of generators "gaming the system" have greatly magnified the crisis.
The main antagonist is Doctor Neo Cortex, a mad scientist who was often ridiculed by the scientific community for his outlandish (but nearly workable) theories and is now motivated to prove his tormentors wrong by creating a mutated army of animals to conquer the world.
To their credit, pay-TV operators came up with the concept for a more workable approach, which is now the centerpiece of a new proposal that Wheeler outlined in The Times this week: delivering their programming through an app that could run securely on smart TVs and connected devices.
As Google has demonstrated, computerized systems that replace human drivers are now largely workable and could greatly limit human error, which causes most of the 33,000 deaths and 1.2 million injuries that now occur each year on the nation's roads.
But only against the backdrop of a generous amnesty for the millions who are now here, and with workable protections for those workers.
Even true believers on the Israeli Left are now seeing that the vaunted two-state paradigm may simply not be workable.
