Most plausibly of all, in my opinion, is the theory that the name simply refers to the copious amounts of black pepper customarily added to the dish: so much, in fact, that it's almost as if it's been seasoned with charcoal.
These are most plausibly seen as votive objects.
Nearly all novelists will have learned to make use of "public characters": secondary figures who can plausibly appear in almost any part of the book, who have good reasons for making those appearances, and who can therefore help to knit together all the curly fibres of a slightly disorganised narrative.
And the margin of error on the forecasts has been about plus or minus 4.7 percentage points of G.D.P. What that means is, if the economy is forecast to grow by 2 percent, it could plausibly grow at almost a 7 percent rate, or shrink by 3 percent, instead.
America's last great bastion of Pith-Helmet preppiness, the club has welcomed members like Teddy Roosevelt and Charles Lindbergh since the early 1900s while pointedly excluded almost any wanderer who could not plausibly be portrayed by Sean Connery in an a film of their implausible life.
Yet Blinder does find Washington guilty of one grievous blunder, so big that it almost explains the public's unhappiness more plausibly than a presidential communications failure.
As it happens, Kenny's ruling on the California rail plan was almost certainly correct; the Brown and Obama administrations have never plausibly explained where they would get the $68 billion needed to build the whole California system.
Based on 95% CIs, the effect could plausibly range from less than 0.5 to almost 5 days.
They can plausibly assert their ignorance about what actually happened.
Although entrenchment is an almost universal characteristic of modern constitutions, and although one could plausibly argue that it is practically desirable, it may not be absolutely necessary.
