Dr. David Lowenstein, a family therapist, said he sees many couples who preserve rooms as an emblem of a time when they didn't have to talk about (or even to) each other.
Among the most important preserved rooms are the chapter house, the refectory with its magnificent arch braced wooden vault and the painted chamber.
"You want to preserve the room.
And their campaign arguments, Mr. Bell said, could help prepare the public for a compromise as long as the candidates preserve some room for postelection maneuvering.
"We are currently reflecting on what we can do to preserve the room, but to be honest we are a small local authority whose finances, like everyone's, have been squeezed by the economic crisis.
In sum, Secretary Powell made it clear that there would be no quarreling with the president's basic approach, but that he would seek to preserve running room for diplomatic options, which he did today by repeating that "we are prepared to talk to North Korea, anytime, anyplace, anywhere, under any set of conditions and with no previously set agenda".
These Cartesians attempted to preserve some room for the action of finite minds on body, but the Cartesian Geraud de Cordemoy (1626 1684) went further in claiming that only God can cause changes in the material world.
The second season is a team option, helping to give the Lakers the chance to preserve cap room for next summer if needed.
The Fed's statement stopped short of an absolute commitment to provide two years of near-zero rates, preserving some room for movement if economic conditions change drastically.
Some Democrats suggested that the administration, by avoiding a divisive debate over teenagers' sexuality, had preserved maneuvering room as it confronts a separate challenge from the nation's Catholic bishops, who seek a broad exemption for Catholic hospitals from the 2010 health care law's requirements for contraceptive coverage.
