Word: drawbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great advantage to such strategy is that it bypasses the Russell Amendment to Rule XXII. The major drawback is that it forces the issue not on the question of the filibuster, but on whether the Senate is a continuing body. In the past, the appeal of sitting in the selfsame, continuing Senate as Webster. Clay and Calhoun has been too compelling for many a Senator otherwise sympathetic to civil rights causes...
...There have been no fireworks yet over the NSF program," Street observed. "It has a certain amount of sense, and its advantages outweigh its single drawback," he added...
...universities themselves? The universities certainly would profit. "A rise of $500 in tutition made possible substantially by an adequate loan program," Harris says, "would double salaries and re-establish the economic status of faculty at a level commensurate with the attraction of talent." There is one local drawback, however. If private business is not interested in taking on the program (which seems likely, since inflation would probably deplete much of the profit), the alternative suggested is the federal government. These two words are anathema at University Hall, because there is a tradition of fear of federal meddling in the autonomous...
...American educational craving for "three-two programs" (three years spent at a liberal arts college, followed by two years at an engineering school, sometimes hundreds of miles away) seems to make more sense as it is set up at Lehigh. The great drawback of the usual three-two program is that students who find it difficult to tear up roots at the end of their junior year refuse to move on and, instead, stay where they are and graduate in applied science, dropping out of engineering altogether. By providing the "three" and the "two" on the same campus, Lehigh encourages...
...ultraviolet rays that turn into light and radio waves after an explosion. They could even pick up the light pulses resulting from a blast in space. ¶ The seismic method, which with astonishing accuracy has already detected the size and location of underground explosions thousands of miles away. Main drawback: seismographs cannot always distinguish between a nuclear blast and an earthquake, though differences between them are now being studied...