If hundreds of measures — economic, environmental, educational and the like — are thrown into the mix, users can pick and choose their markers of progress.
Some members, she said, preferred to have the land left as is, but were persuaded "that there was merit to the environmental educational part of what they were planning".
"Parts of this can be depicted by others, outside the state of Maine, to be pretty selfish," said W. Donald Hudson, who is the president of the Chewonski Foundation, an environmental educational institution a mile from the plant.
Under the current plan, the sailing organization and kayak rental businesses in the building would remain, she said, but there would also be ample room for environmental educational set-ups and small vendors.
What they have insisted is that the arts must fulfil a social, political, environmental, educational or economic purpose - in other words they must be an 'instrument' for 'delivering' other government policies.
But, Mrs. Clinton said, "We are moving away from that understanding" of future preference, giving today's graduates substantial environmental, educational and economic concerns in a world where America must learn to balance military might with the ability to get along with others.
