Thanks Emily. I always seem to type "then" first, but I know that the bulk of the time I change it to "than" (correctly, it seems, since I tend to write more comparitive than causal items).
Of course, you could have said, "...the bulk of the time I then change it to 'than.'"
Er, I don't have a point. Just saying.
In weird news, did people know this?
The government also won't recognize any disability that resulted from the commission of a felony or the ensuing prison term. So if Spitzer ends up in the slammer for, say, illegal structuring and then has his eyes gouged out in a prison fight, he may not meet the federal definition for legal blindness.
A blind person may also be left off the government rolls if the source of his impairment was central as opposed to peripheral. That is to say, someone who was rendered virtually blind as a result of brain damage—someone whose cortex couldn't make sense of a visual scene, for example—would not be considered "legally blind," so long as his eyeballs themselves were functioning normally.
Weird.