But all of the geoengineering schemes currently under consideration have considerable drawbacks and limitations, the biggest being massive uncertainty.
The I.O.C. requires that a sport applying for Olympic consideration have active federations in 50 countries.
The spots under consideration have significance in Ms. Morrison's novels and in black history.
Yet some of the measures under consideration have, at best, a tangential relationship to the electricity shortage in California.
Rules required that a bill under consideration have its sponsor or co-sponsor present to answer questions — at all times.
The sites under consideration have long runways and airspace that can be easily segregated to allow spaceplane flights to operate alongside normal aviation.
"But unlike in 1986, most of the specific provisions of the legislation under consideration have received no hearings," Martin A. Sullivan, a former U.S. Treasury official and congressional staffer, noted at the Tax Analysts blog.
"Our continual challenge is to provide a structure to ensure that all candidates who are worthy of consideration have a fair system of evaluation," Jane Forbes Clark, the Hall of Fame's chairwoman, said in a statement.
At the Old Bailey last week, crown prosecutor Christopher Hehir, told the court: "The prosecution have recently become aware of relevant material and in light of which, after careful and anxious consideration, have reached the conclusion that there is no longer a realistic prospect of conviction in this case.
Arthur must draft a letter to the woman with whom he will not, after some consideration, have an affair, and Miriam will consider the furtive excursions she has taken to the doctor for the lump in her breast that she knows, instinctively, is malignant.
Whilst this is a missed opportunity to go for a fairer and more effective system such as a generous flat rate, it is hard not to feel a sense of relief that some of the options that were under active consideration have been shelved.
