"We chose to err on the side of providing too many rules and regulations," Taubman said.
In contrast to Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen," he chose "to err on the side of less information".
Mr. Sullivan acknowledged "there are critiques to be made" about using state-owned versus private planes, but said "we chose to err on the side of protecting taxpayers".
When I asked if the agency might choose to err on the side of caution, he said, "We did take an action to alert the public to safely handle and prepare their products".
Hazleton's law, the appeals judges found, "creates the exact situation that Congress feared: a system under which employers might quite rationally choose to err on the side of discriminating against job applicants who they perceive to be foreign".
Any retailer will end up either over- or under-ordering when trying to estimate demand, and Amazon understandably chose to err on the side of having too much.
Roberts, though, explained that Bernanke chose to err on the side of preventive action rather than sit back and only control inflation.
In fact, given the depth of the recession, a jobless recovery forecast, and fear of a double dip recession, it is likely that the Federal Reserve will choose to err on the side of providing too much stimuli for too long.
