contingency

"During Starship's ascent burn, the vehicle experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly and contact was lost. Our team immediately began coordination with safety officials to implement pre-planned contingency responses," the company wrote.

“Even the threat of some of these policies” can be inflationary, Ortega said, “because companies are scrambling, trying to come up with contingency plans for where they might source produces or find labor.”

History is driven not only by vast impersonal forces like geography and economics but also by contingency, that is, the individual actions of men and women.

"There's a pretty good contingency of Trump's supporters who are probably going to welcome this guy and probably even see him as a victim of persecution."

Now it recommends developing contingencies, including limiting airport expansion, if those technologies don't emerge.