the adoption of words from another language

The availability and spread of an indigenous aggregative term for all Aborigines (Gooris/Kooris) is suggestive of a growing intergroup identity among them, over and above former and current ethnolinguistic demarcations. The term Goori/Kuri itself stems from the Southeastern coastal area, some 300 miles north of Sydney. Wurm and Hattori list ‘7?’ speakers for Kuri and ‘9??’ for the Yuin-Kuric grouping (10 dialects, all but three of which are extinct).

[T]hey were peculiarly honored by the unexpected presence in their midst of that famous son of the South, Colonel Starbottle, who had lately returned to his native soil from his adopted home in California.

While the maximin is ultraconservative and the maximax is ultraoptimistic, the Hurwicz criterion is between the two extremes, using a weighted combination of the best and the worst consequences for each alternative.