But those are incompatible goals, and in its twilight months, the Clinton administration is strangled by its own constraints as it contemplates the options in places like Sierra Leone, Congo, Angola, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Zimbabwe.
Perched on a double bed, they contemplated the options: were they preening for their friends, for the older guys at school, or maybe, just to feel good, just for themselves?
A combined degree Finally, to take this idea a step further, contemplate the option of combined - sometimes called modular or multidisciplinary - degrees.
But her comments marked the first time a senior US official has publicly contemplated the option of containment in the event of Iran's succeeding in building a nuclear weapon.
Crucially, if the Philippines overcomes the jurisdictional hurdle, then I am confident that Vietnam and other like-minded countries will more seriously contemplate the option of leveraging UNCLOS to rein in Chinese belligerence.
Hence, it is necessary to contemplate the option of moving into multiple drug therapy.
As Tito Mboweni, the head of the country's central bank, contemplates the policy options, the news media are bubbling with speculation about what he and his colleagues in government might do.
Analysts played down the prospect of either deal taking place, but the fact that the government, one of Rolls' biggest customers, is contemplating these options highlights how concerned it is about the FTSE 100 engineer.
The Thatcher government wobbled in its resolution to resist the IRA's Maze prison hunger strike and contemplated the "unpalatable" option of British withdrawal from Northern Ireland, according to secret cabinet documents.
Still contemplating the shoes.
