Here's what she wrote: Since we submitted our memo on December 8, several outstanding budget and policy issues are now resolved, giving us greater clarity about the scale and scope of the policy options for SOTU.
The formulation of the takings rule thus expands the scope of the discovery options.
While the purpose of the early talks is to explore all possible ideas, several officials involved said that it is already fairly clear the scope of the policy options is limited.
If they perceived a choice had been offered, they explored the scope of the choice (i.e. how many options, what the options were) and timeline of the decision.
Nine days later, on October 29th, Reuters reported that the scope of the options-backdating scandal was far wider than was previously known: "The stock options timing scandal, which has already implicated at least 140 companies, could include hundreds more, according to a new analysis that found lax enforcement of corporate governance reforms that should have prevented the practice...
To prepare for such a future contingency it is important to evaluate both the scope of technical options for the abatement of greenhouse gases, and the costs of such measures.
The international fishery commissions, established under the auspices of FAO (the first in 1948), have broadened the scope of management options and included many developing countries, but have so far had little success other than trying to impose quotas and regulate fishing gear and boat size.
The scope of insurance options available gives a clue as to the wide range of dangers that warehouses are susceptible to.
They understood CAM to add 'holistic capacity' to their service by treating the whole person, by filling therapeutic gaps and by broadening the scope of healthcare options for patients.
It has also stirred controversy over the limited and biased scope of the domestic economic policy options it allows participants and because it would set a new institutional framework for interaction between national governments and transnational corporations (TNCs)—one that is clearly slanted for the latter (Kolsky Lewis 2011; Rochon 2013).3.
This represents a one way to open that up a bit and increase the potential scope of other options".
