Word: outweighing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just don't think there was enough evidence to support that point of view," Fay said yesterday. "The health benefits of putting catalytic converters on cars now would far outweigh the economic gain in waiting to develop cheaper technologies later," he said...
...limitations. The soprano part, abounds with sustained Forte. As and B flats. Often called upon to sing Fortissimo for long passages, Adams's choir coped with their hard-to-negotiate vocal lines courageously, and by and large, successfully. The balance was usually fairly good, with the men tending to outweigh the women at times. A large measure of the success of this performance was due to the sensitivity with which the choir responded to Adams's direction...
...abused but doubt that it will be. Schmitt, for example, feels that fear of thought control is unreasonable. "When it comes to thought control," he says, "politicians and journalists do a better job than neuroscientists." Instead, the brain researchers stress that the benefits resulting from their research would far outweigh the dangers. An understanding of how the brain works could lead to treatments for some forms of mental retardation. A greater knowledge of what takes place during learning could result in improvement in teaching techniques. Even human intelligence might be increased as a result...
...more than three years, the Interior Department announced that it would launch an experimental program to tap federal shale-oil reserves. "It is in the national interest" to go ahead, said Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton, adding: "We have developed rigorous and comprehensive environmental controls. The potential benefits outweigh the unavoidable costs and risks involved...
...responsible for what happened to the Indochinese. You are not obliged to make reparations payments, for example. You were temporarily insane. Of course, by putting the emphasis in your discussion of the war on its comparatively minor effects on the United States, you have already suggested that these far outweigh its comparatively enormous effects on Indochina. So you may even feel rather proud of yourself. Moral schizophrenia has a distinguished sound; it's the sort of thing that practically begs the throwing up of hands...