"Keep it," Jack says, and she stuffs the change into a Styrofoam tip cup on the counter.
Those who know the play understand that it's to facilitate the change into tails for the play's Carnegie Hall finale.
Then, after critics said he sounded self-serving, he recommended putting the change into effect in 2009, when he cannot run again.
Labor also said that, according to preliminary estimates, the economy added about 236,000 more jobs than previously thought in the year ended March 2004 and it will incorporate the change into benchmark revisions it issues next February.
Defense officials offered few details about Mr. Panetta's decision but described it as the beginning of a process to allow the branches of the military to put the change into effect.
The great opening up of the gap between the yes and no campaigns also coincided with the point at which senior Lib Dems decisively got involved, and tried to turn their backing for the change into a badge of difference vis-à-vis their coalition partners.
In the wake of the Senate vote to end the 17-year-old policy, which forced gay men and women in the military to keep their sexual orientation secret or face discharge, military officials said they did not yet have a timetable for putting the change into effect.
According to a study of nearly 800 employers released last month by the human resources consultant Mercer, only about a quarter of respondents who don't already cover children until age 26 said they planned to put the change into effect before their annual health plan renewal date.
