What the self-evacuations demonstrate is a sense of agency and capacity possessed by the communities, where they are able to preempt official decisions and thus more quickly respond to changes in the level of risk.
The OCC's sweeping preemption order will be void, but the agency will still be able to preempt state laws on a case-by-case basis, subject to court review, as it did throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
That is, unless a Supreme Court with justices "in the mold of Justice Scalia" are appointed to the court and are able to preempt such a law by ruling against LGBT people in a variety cases making their way to the high court.
If presented with a polite version of, "You can have it on Wednesday, but we'll be able to preempt a lot of problems if we give it another two weeks to take X and Y into account," such people will often choose quality over speed, since the deadline was really just their version of yelling, "Push!" at a woman in childbirth because they think that's somehow supposed to help.
Being able to share information!
Being able to afford college.
"If we can understand the patterns that lead to delinquency and default, we may be able to predict and even preempt such outcomes to the benefit of borrowers, taxpayers, and economic growth".
However, given the definition of causation in terms of causal chains, Lewis is able to distinguish the preempting actual cause from the preempted potential cause.
Only a controlled, randomized study would be able to compare the efficacy of PREEMPT paradigm to such a tailored protocol, targeted to sites of myofascial pain.
Soon it may be able to pinpoint which customers are likely to switch carriers so as to preempt them with discounts and special offers.
