patiodog wrote:
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Quote:......... to formulate and optimize a plan in order to avoid a a complicated or unpleasant situation.
.........-- to vet a nominee, to vet a bill.
Not vetting, and I doubt the word is "positioning". The only thing that covers it is "probably", but first we must see if Ratzenhofer would agree with this FAA safety expert:
Quote:....you should be alert anytime the word “probably” pops into your head when flying. Probably means that you’ve done an informal assessment of the likelihood of an event occurring and have assigned a probability to it. ............. Would you play Russian roulette with a gun that had 100 chambers and just one bullet in it? I hope not.
https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2009/Mar/FAASTeam_Safety_Tip_3.pdf
Or: for how much money WOULD you play the 100-to-1 Russian roulette bet? There's no right or wrong answer to this, it's a matter of individual risk preference. If it's OPM (other people's money) you may not worry so much, and if it's taxpayers' money you may not worry at all!
