While most of the home's problems, like "rats that look like cats," as Sandra put it, remain, it is beginning to resemble a home.
Even though all agreed the decision to join a MAT should be "more moral than balance sheets" – as Kamal Hanif, chief executive of Waverley Education Foundation, put it – finances remained a concern.
Even as a new inquiry opened into possible collusion between Trump-campaign operatives and Russia, "the WikiLeaks connection," as James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, put it last year, remained obscure.
This is a variation on Buddhist meditation, in which the practitioner learns to pay attention selectively and, as she put it, "to remain in the present, rather than to wallow and worry about the past and catastrophize the future".
Earlier this week, the bank announced it was selling its $8.6 billion Canadian credit card business to the TD Bank Group for an undisclosed amount, and that it was putting its remaining European card portfolio on the block.
He'd spent most of the previous two years working as a staff writer at The New Yorker, but he didn't enjoy city living — "The place proved to be other than the Fred Astaire movies had led me to expect," as he put it — and he remained in Ipswich until 1974, when he and Mary separated.
Carter put it back, and it remained through the Presidencies of Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, before being removed by George W. Bush.
In any case, it's hard to imagine any President agreeing to release people who, as Obama put it, "in effect, remain at war with the United States".
In Egyptair 990, which crashed on Oct. 31, 1999, as the board delicately put it, "questions still remain as to the exact environment in the cockpit prior to the upset".
As the company begins unwinding itself from the mess of competition, it should look for a partner that can put it in the remaining millions of homes that don't have a tablet or e-reader.
