"Maybe it's a pre-emptive step," Mr. Douglas said.
"They aren't certain what threat the Internet poses, but today's announcement was a pre-emptive step".
And although he admits to censoring himself to avoid censorship by others, this pre-emptive step hasn't always been enough.
"Nobody raised a legal objection to my book specifically, and yet the publisher cowed down and took a pre-emptive step," she said.
As a pre-emptive step, passengers with different names on their frequent flier accounts should change them to match their IDs.
And that is also why, seeing what had happened to Bear Stearns, Fannie and Freddie, and Lehman Brothers, he took the pre-emptive step of selling Merrill Lynch to Bank of America.
That could have been the case with the storm of interpretation that greeted Ms. Palin's announcement — running the gamut from her laying the groundwork for a run for the 2012 presidential nomination, to preparing to become a conservative commentator, to making a pre-emptive step in anticipation of an embarrassing disclosure.
That could have been the case with the storm of interpretation that greeted Ms. Palin's announcement -- running the gamut from her preparing a run for the 2012 presidential nomination, to laying the groundwork for a lucrative career as a conservative commentator, to making a pre-emptive step in anticipation of an embarrassing disclosure.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has overseen the firms since 2008, ordered the moves as a pre-emptive step after the exchange told Fannie Mae that its shares no longer met listing standards, said Edward J. DeMarco, the agency's acting director.
Other cheerleaders for the war said the absence of such proof didn't matter because the strike would be an essential pre-emptive step.
Steve Bisciotti: "Yes, after seeing the second videotape, we took the pre-emptive step, ahead of the league, to do what we thought we had to do".
