Word: drawbacks
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Although workers may occasionally converse with residents, wet work is frequently done alone in the bathroom, which some workers name as a drawback. Instead, they choose dry work for its camaraderie and the friends they make...
Teachers have it made. They get to send students to detention, assign homework and give tests. They can issue commands like "compare and contrast" and watch their charges squirm. There is but one drawback to wielding such power: the daunting task of grading essays. For every student who pulls an all-nighter wading through Great Expectations, there is a teacher who has to slog through dozens of tortured expositions on the symbolism of Miss Havisham's aborted wedding feast...
...subjected to vibrations or high Gs." Moreover, the scientific gear (though not the balloon) will be recoverable, drifting back to earth by parachute at the end of a mission. Scientists, to be sure, have been flying high-altitude balloons since the 1950s. But there was always a major drawback: as the balloons rose, the sun's heat expanded their gas, and helium had to be vented to keep the balloon from exploding. Then, as the sun set and the gases contracted, ballast had to be dropped to keep it aloft. Missions rarely saw more than one or two sunsets...
...definitely a drawback to Harvard, when they would not accept AP scores, where at [similar] institutions, this might have been possible," said John Paul Rollert '00, chair of the Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council...
Pforzheimer resident and swimmer Gregory C. Walker '01 says he wasn't bothered by being placed in the Quad but that there was "the one drawback-that I Knew I would have to go down to the pool three days a week...