As senators sparred in interviews, op-ed pages and television appearances, the Bush administration sought to keep its deliberations over a potential successor to Sandra Day O'Connor out of public view.
As the company descended into insolvency, the Education Department allowed it to continue to enroll new students at its remaining campuses in an effort to keep its schools attractive to potential buyers.
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The Nobel committee always keeps its short list of potential prizewinners strictly secret and this year did not even call the winner to congratulate him in advance of the announcement, fearing the news might leak.
This involves modernising its ageing nuclear forces and ensuring that America keeps its technological edge over potential enemies (the "offset strategy", now mainly concerned with robotics, miniaturisation, hypersonics, cyber-warfare and the handling of "big data").
Every company has its challenges and setbacks that keep it from achieving its full potential.
Mr. Summers's not-so-subtle plea to allies abroad is for them to raise the speed limit on economic growth by setting aside, as the United States has in recent years, the idea that it is better to keep growth well below its potential than to risk even modest inflation.
The need for policies of social investment to keep the economy at full employment to bridge over technological displacement was also a theme of the economist Hyman Minsky, who observed that the problem was laissez-faire capitalism and its tendency toward periodic financial crises; it took activist government to keep the economy at its potential.
Before the Great Recession, there was a near consensus among economists that monetary policy by itself could stabilize aggregate demand and keep the economy on its potential growth path.
