Word: cost-benefit
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...call. Participating colleges may choose to further subsidize the discount—as the University does for its employees—but at the very least, the College could allow students to reap the benefits of the 11 percent MBTA discount without having to pay a penny. In a cost-benefit analysis where there is no cost, there is no excuse...
...said that in the “cost-benefit analysis” of UC Books, the dwindling popularity of the program was outweighed by the tremendous effort required to maintain it. Instead, she said, the council is focusing on other technology, such as designing a more user-friendly website...
...opposed to Clark’s action but I object to the Crimson’s characterization of it. Harvard’s mission has been degraded by his decision and I resent The Crimson’s attempts to justify it through a superficial cost-benefit analysis. I think that were we discussing a racist, sexist or religiously bigoted employer being allowed on campus, The Crimson would calculate differently...
...places. With about half of Europe's population already living along rivers, it's doubtful that large tracts will be restored to grassland. More and better river management may be the only option. But Tockner says "those measures give people a false sense of security." He argues that a cost-benefit analysis would show that flood protection through natural meadows and forests would be more effective in the long run than apparent gains through agriculture or industry. "The construction and maintenance of dams are extremely expensive," he says. "But environmental protection and human protection are not contradictory. If rivers...
...Indeed, there's a gaping cost-benefit gulf to be bridged before Honda's little walking man can evolve into the next Walkman. Consumers have been conditioned to expect robots to behave like C-3PO of Star Wars. But creating artificially intelligent machines that can sense and interact with the environment in a convincing way is a monumentally complex computing task. The Japanese government's Humanoid Robotics Project set out five years ago to deliver a robot versatile enough to perform hard labor in hazardous conditions. Some $40 million has been spent but the project's HRP-1 robot still...