Conceivably, the plan could even end up being fairly neutral on a distribution basis.
"In many ways it's fairly neutral," says Richard King, head of research, at The Andersons Centre, a farm business consultancy.
The advantages of organizing the work this way were many — namely, that the resulting displays are fairly neutral in their placement of designers.
"I'm fairly neutral on the drilling," he said, though that did not lessen his concern over the possibility of a landfill across the street.
So, on some issues like missile defense, Ms. Rice, who was thought in the beginning to be fairly neutral, has joined Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, officials from both camps said.
Since a vote for Ms. Hahn was also necessarily a vote against her lone opponent, Mr. Huey, we might reasonably have expected Ms. Hahn to prevail by twice that amount, or a net of 22 percentage points, assuming that the political environment was fairly neutral over all.
"If you're really worried about damaging your brand, you'll do what a lot of people say: Play ball and shut the hell up, which is, sadly enough, a very popular belief among a significant part of our community," she said, adding, "So while it was fairly neutral as far as statements go, it still crossed the line that a good number of people think players should never dare cross".
