@gustavratzenhofer,
Oops. I just reported you. Wrong button.
Anyway...
Quote:For several days now I have been seeking a word which, so far, has eluded me. The word I seek is commonly used in the political arena and basically means to formulate and optimize a plan in order to avoid a a complicated or unpleasant situation.
The closest thing I can think of is vetting -- to vet a nominee, to vet a bill.
@patiodog,
Just because you're a vet.......
@patiodog,
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!
Maybe extricate, mitigate, or palliate?
plot, scheme, subterfuge, streamline, revise, review, summarize, ...
"fail-safe" also describes the situation
(There have been many answers since Gus last posted. Maybe we should wait to hear from him. I have been losing sleep over this!)
Sorry, Wandel, for your sleep loss. The word has yet to be discovered. I have just returned home from a brief outing and my plan, right now, is to go to bed and flip through the dictionary in hopes of stumbling across this cursed word. If I have any success I will report back immediately upon waking.
@gustavratzenhofer,
me thinks that you are playing with us Gus. shame on you.
No, I am not, sglass. The fact that I have yet to figure out this word has been causing me great emotional distress. Rarely, if ever, do I fail to come up with a word in such a situation in a time of less than a day. This is going on far too long and I must now admit that I am suffering perhaps the beginning stages of acute memory loss.
@gustavratzenhofer,
Quote:beginning stages of acute memory loss.
I think the word you are searching for is "Alzheimer's."
