tractability

In a perverse form of political Darwinism, leaders in the executive branch have been selected for traits of turpitude and tractability.

History shows that, when presented with unpalatable evidence of the undesirable effects of our decisions, we either bury our collective heads in the sand, or order the problems we face in terms of their tractability.

"On the other hand ... the paperwork system doesn't provide tractability from the stump to the mill."

When you consider that the side effects of the lobotomy — tractability, passivity, docility — overlap nicely with what many men considered to be ideal feminine traits, that disparity is perhaps not surprising.

They look for three key characteristics: scale, neglect and tractability.