Word: cost-benefit
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Historians have rightly insisted that U.S. expansionist efforts cannot be explained along the lines of a strict cost-benefit analysis of businessmen's profits. Social conditions in the late 19th century just as domestic unrest today established the context within which expansion might be pursued...
...world were lined up on a single continuum that connected the two superpowers: the Soviet Union and the United States. Should the Russians violate the cease-fire lines in the Mideast, then the President must be free to respond in Cambodia. And if the policy made no sense in cost-benefit analysis, at least it would proceed from strategic thinking which transcended the day-to-day pressures of political life...
...branches in some 90 other U.S. cities, and trained an estimated 10,000 workers for factory jobs. Sullivan himself has picked up a dozen honorary degrees and the ability to talk the business language of his new G.M. associates; by now he is well acquainted with capital budgeting and cost-benefit ratios...
...balcony dweller. He rates only a seat overlooking the revels below, and a better view of the stage. He also, by taking the cheapest seats in the house is able to attend the concert for only one dollar. Although there are certain advantages to having a table, a scrupulous cost-benefit analysis will reveal the superiority of a dollar seat...
...that Visconti's extravagance is justified by its strong and constant significance. That argument would end by calling for greater economy of means than Visconti used. As a means to intended significances, Visconti's pacing and visual style are slow and luxurious, his dialogue and acting excessively explicit. Fortunately, cost-benefit analyses do not apply to works of art, which justify their means by appealing to our sense of internal order and formal beauty...