Word: entailment
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...greatest losses to Cambridge that the disappearance of Harvard would entail would be the demise of Harvard Square. As a subway terminus and as the meeting place of all of the city's major roads, a Harvard-less Square would quite likely continue to be congested. But the area's economic vitality and cultural uniqueness is totally dependent on its proximity to the University...
...estimated cost of some $60 billion a year. But Kennedy has now recognized political realities: doctors, leery of any program that would change the health care delivery system, opposed this plan vigorously, while the public has shown no willingness to accept the tax burdens that such comprehensive coverage would entail...
...memo states that because of the People's Republic's split with the Soviets as well as internal dissention resulting from the Cultural Revolution, "the time has come for us to resort to such tactics as would entail the minimum sacrifices, take the least time and insure the greatest effect...
Most neurosurgeons now' agree that the lobotomies which were performed in the thousands in the 1950's were hatchet jobs which invariably brought disastrous side effects. Present day psychosurgeons say that their surgery does not entail bad side effects because they destroy only small numbers of cells in localized parts of the brain. Opponents of psychosurgery say that neurologists still know too little about the brain and that performing these operations is, as State Senator Chester Atkins [D-Concord] has said, the equivalent of using a sledge hammer to tune a piano...
Each energy source has its own damaging effects. Nixon called for the construction of more nuclear power plants. However, nuclear plants entail dumping enormous quantities of excess heat into waterways and storage of dangerous nuclear waste products. Many physicists question the effectiveness of the emergency cooling systems built into reactors, and warn that with each new power plant, the chances for disastrous accident's increase...