calculation

By their own calculation, Trump enacted some 64% of their recommendations in his budget in 2018, for example.

But the desire to avoid costly wars is clearly a selective calculation.

A similar calculation holds for Ethiopia and its fractious relations with an Egypt-led coalition that includes Eritrea and Somalia.

It was one of her few obvious gaffes, but it was, more importantly, indicative of Harris’ refusal to distance herself from the radioactive president, or a calculation that creating that distance wasn’t politically possible.

“There was nothing magical about the remaining ballots,” McCoy says, calling the calculation “a simple algebra problem.”