Individuals with known limited hearing ability may be excluded from Stage 1 due to practical difficulties of carrying out an interview and the distress and frustration this may cause the participant.
Even alcohol was off limits after hearing from fellow sufferers that drinking made their condition worse.
View such people as attention-seekers and give them some attention within limits by hearing them out in a closed-door meeting: Inform the gossiper that you want to know what is really bothering them.
In addition to those Doe Fund employees who testified at the term-limits hearing, a number of others connected to the organization, including participants in its programs, came to City Hall in support of Mr. Bloomberg and his term-limits bid.
Bill Duke, who founded the firm with his wife, Cheryl, and their son, Paul, has limited hearing; Paul, 32, has muscular dystrophy and has used a wheelchair since he was a teenager.
One of the stars will be China's Xu Lijia, defending her title in the laser radial class despite being partially sighted, having limited hearing and having had a tumour removed from her knee.
Dutch composer Kyteman, working in collaboration with a deaf 19-year-old named Vera van Dijk, has composed a song using only frequencies detectable by a cochlear implant a device which allows the deaf to regain limited hearing capabilities.
So I spent hours running after them, fixing dates with their secretaries (whose number seemed to grow without limit) and hearing incomprehensible speeches, in order, finally, to get their signatures.
Asking the guy behind the counter for the card limit, I hear a loud voice from behind me: "What's the limit on card?
A survey in 2003 conducted by the Transportation Research Project, an advocacy group, found that 9 out of 10 Americans oppose higher weight limits, even after hearing the arguments in their favor.
