The hard line on Argentina, White House and Treasury officials say, was calculated to send the message that under the Bush administration, the United States would be a reluctant financial firefighter and that the markets should not bet on a bailout.
Ms. Nuland, a former State Department spokeswoman nominated by Mr. Obama to be an assistant secretary of state, was backed by some of the same Republicans, even though the e-mails show she pushed to edit the talking points — a process critics say was calculated to airbrush the White House's account of the attacks for political reasons.
The fallout from the appearance of high-level security details in a number of New York Times stories has quickly grown, with Attorney General Eric Holder opening a probe and with Republicans and conservative pundits hammering the White House for what they say are calculated leaks.
This, they said, was "calculated to mislead in the event of an outside investigation".
The total fine was fixed by the police at €388,500 – a figure Lepore says was calculated according to the estimated worth of the vessel.
In government, Mr. Medvedev allocated oil windfall profits for social spending in what were called National Projects, controlling billions of dollars of discretionary funds for agriculture, education, health care and housing, a position analysts said was calculated to boost his popularity.
The total damages, they said, were calculated based upon the cost of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the United States.
But the Joyce program, Mr. Mallette said, is calculated to show the company's emergence in a "serious technical and artistic way".
The flurry of announcements, senior administration officials said, is calculated to show a president who is determined to keep pushing on jobs, regardless of resistance from Congress to his broader legislative proposals.
A person's FICO score, Mr. Watts said, is calculated by taking all credit-management information on that person's credit report, assigning different weights to different types of information and then blending all the information into a formula that produces a numerical score ranging from 300 to 850.
The rush to indict Mr. Zuma during a Christmas holiday and after his election as the party president, he said, "is calculated to quickly redress the popular support and call to leadership of the A.N.C. which Mr. Zuma's election so obviously demonstrates".
