If Boeing and Microsoft and others who are seen as deeply engaged and committed to the relationship speak frankly about the stress, that is of real value.

We're going to continue to be deeply engaged and working with the parties.

It looks like we are engaged in a kind of secret industrial policy to make sure a Microsoft or Boeing does very well. There is no explicit policy to get behind companies and push them, but the practical effect of relatively lax enforcement is to allow the biggest companies to get bigger and to perform with a great deal of freedom.

deeply and personally engaged in the process from before the hurricane.

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.

My instinct is to keep my engagement ring - After all, I wouldn't like to see it on the finger of a cheeky girl.