"position and hold"
Maybe coz everybody else on earth will think about the instruction for a bit, than agree to hold where ever they are and report their position.
Back to the thread...
If the TCAS has gone off the controller has (probably) already farked it up (unless the other traffic is unknown to him/her/it). We have to be mindfull that if we notice traffic in unsafe proximity and attract the attention of one aircraft and take some sort of action the other may be reacting to the beeping on the dashboard.
This 5 degree bank thing is a worry, we currently take the above to mean vector like mad in such collision avoidance situations, and leave the vertical to the gizmo????
Our radar gear is designed to help us preserve separation standards, so it's ok to be about 6 seconds behind reality.