Members of his Administration have repeated their openness to "military options," despite projections that air strikes, or other attempts at targeted attacks, could spark a wider war.
When Mr. Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary, soon after the Obama budget's release that the administration must find a more "viable" source of revenue for its health care plan, Mr. Geithner expressed openness to other options.
Huawei disputes this version of events, with Mr. Sladek saying the company had "indicated its openness to consider all options in dialogue with the U.S. authorities," including the creation of a system like the one in Britain.
Mr Obama's speech and sensible proposals, which are similar to those drafted by Mr Baucus, and his openness to the trigger option favoured by Ms Snowe, can only boost efforts at compromise.Whether it is enough to keep Ms Snowe and perhaps one or two other Republicans firmly on board remains to be seen.
Wyden's openness to a public option gives his allies more room to maneuver.
Graham's openness to serve as a public option pitch woman truly underscores the extent to which the public option discussion has gone from a debate within the field of academia and think tanks to a national conversation fed (in part) by consistent cable news coverage.
But though party leadership has voiced openness to a single payer or public options plan, they aren't likely to fully embrace it, at least not in this election cycle.
But in my conversations with pro-life leaders, there was more openness to negotiate on the best framework and options for the exchange.
In remarks to the American Bar Association in January, Mr. Pistole expressed a need to formulate a vision for transportation security, mentioning a trusted traveler program as an option under consideration and expressing an openness to other suggestions.
Improvements in decision making can come in the form of optimized selection of risk management options, timeliness, resource requirements, transparency, acceptability, and openness to new information or any other desirable attributes of good decision-making processes (NRC 2009).
