"There were considerations of style, color, paint finishes, wallpaper and carpets," said Ms. Hockersmith, who was required to consult regularly with the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.
"What office worker is going to want to walk in a huge circle to get from one building to another?" Ms. Pressman said there were considerations more important than size.
Those were considerations for Dr. Hughes, who has a 3-year-old, and Yvette Fontenot, a mother of three who began her Washington career in 1997, analyzing Medicare for the Office of Management and Budget.
Abramson says she is unfazed by that, pointing out that the Times won a Pulitzer for the story that it did eventually publish Snowden may have seen it as a problem, but "at the time there were considerations that caused the story to be held for a while".
On the table were considerations of a spinoff and recapitalization of its cash-burning car unit.
It is implausible that such an activity is unethical, as implied by the Human Dignity Argument, but even if it were, considerations of human dignity seem irrelevant here.
