As the increase was associated with increase in asymptomatic cases, possibility of enhanced outbreak investigations at child care facilities exist.
And keying on worst-case and best-case possibilities is an unrealistic, inefficient, and sometimes dangerous way to generate insight.
As would be expected, none of the worst-case possibilities found voice in Mr. Obama's announcement about the withdrawal.
SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has spent the last two weeks plugging worst-case possibilities into his economic and market forecasts.
Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warned that current emissions trajectories were speeding the world toward the panel's worst-case possibilities.
ESPN.com's Pat Forde humorously breaks down best- and worst-case possibilities for all 64 teams in his "dream and nightmare" column.
After having watched the events unfold on television, Mr. Brown said that jetliners crashing into the buildings were worst-case possibilities that the architects and engineers had worked through as an intellectual exercise.
Most strikingly, the material included four worst case possibilities: 1 The disaffected lab worker In which an unhappy biotech employee makes minor modifications to the genome of a virus – for example, avian flu H5N1.
And the production company, Coco Television, and RTE, the strapped Irish state broadcaster that co-owns the rights to the "Cabin Fever" format, are receiving a sobering lesson in the worst-case possibilities of reality shows.
Some administration officials insist Israel is throwing out worst-case possibilities to "shorten the timeline" to an Iranian bomb as a way to put pressure on the Obama administration.
