Word: cost-benefit
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...made a more revealing comment when asked at his press conference what had gone through his mind the last day. "I'm an engineer. I just rationally looked at the facts . . . You don't make good decisions with emotions." Like the good businessman he is, Perot calculated the cost-benefit ratio and found the bottom line wanting. His mind-set is different from that of a seasoned politician, who knows campaigns often encounter ambushes and that persistence under attack is a cardinal virtue. A disillusioned Perot worker in San Francisco, Ivan Sharpe, said, "He probably doesn't deserve the presidency...
Even from a cost-benefit perspective, an appeal to youth makes sense...
Getting the area clean, he adds, would be a boon for businesses and bring money into the city. "In terms of a cost-benefit analysis, if we can get Harvard and Central Square clean at all times Whatsoever, the benefits would be worth it," he says...
...other measures that the report urges, including investing in global climate research (to the tune of $1 billion) and planting millions of trees that can become storehouses for CO2. Though Bush undertook those actions for other reasons, they double as defenses against global warming. The panel also used a cost-benefit analysis that takes into account the price of implementing its recommendations, an approach that Darman and Sununu favor...
...Epps knows something we don't know, he should tell us. If he is concerned about issues of liability, he should be up front and tell us. So far he hasn't. The College should not limit the ability of students to make these vital cost-benefit calculations. The restrictions undermine an important function of college life--to provide an arena in which students make these kinds of decisions without a watchful parent or guardian to oversee them...