The White House is calculating that opposition to Mr. Hagel may be loud but not broad and that in end the Senate will confirm him.
Such tactics are calculated to stifle opposition for good.
But the ultimate price tag for unity has not yet been calculated, and the opposition Social Democratic Party said today's accord raised new questions about unification's actual costs.
In setting the date seven-and-a-half months ahead, she calculated that the opposition's policy-free zones would show it in an unflattering light.
The appointment may have been equally calculated to infuriate the opposition.
In their study "The Economic Power of the Golden Rice Opposition," they calculated that the absence of Golden Rice in the past decade has caused the loss of at least 1,424,680 life years in India alone.
However, the trust required to achieve a political settlement has been absent and Yemen's opposition politicians calculated that they had nothing to gain by cutting a power-sharing deal.
Mr Cameron refused to do a single head-to-head match with Mr Miliband, calculating that the opposition leader had most to gain.
Mr. Axelrod, like Mr. Emanuel, suggested that Republicans had made a strategic choice to be a party not just of opposition but of calculated obstruction.
"Violence is on the rise and it seems to be a well calculated strategy to prevent the opposition campaign," Keerthi Tennakoon, executive director of the Campaign for Free and Fair Election, told Reuters.
The money is intended to be paid into a sovereign-wealth fund, which has yet to be set up.Based on the 21 trillion cubic feet of gas that is thought to exist in the exploration block covered by the agreement, opposition critics have calculated that the difference in terms could lead to $12 billion less revenue for the government over the expected 15 year life of the project.
