Word: outweighing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power no longer as securely in America's favor as it once was, there may be little time left to get back into the intelligence business in a decisive way. Unless such a change is made, the damage that has been done by crippling the CIA may far outweigh the damage caused by the excesses of the agency when it was riding high and unchallenged...
...costs of decontrol far outweigh its minimal benefits. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that it will cost consumers a staggering $16 billion annually in higher prices, not to speak of a higher rate of inflation throughout the economy. And the distribution of this cost will fall most heavily on the elderly and the poor, who spend a greater proportion of their income on fuel...
...partisan North-Eastern caucus which is designed to offset the Congressional voting power of such sun-belt states as California, Cohen said he has had to vote against his caucus and "go with my conscious" in some matters where he felt that the overall Federal benefits would outweigh his regional interests...
...court disagreed. Writing for the majority. Justice Byron White called the safety factor "marginal at best," and said it was not enough to outweigh the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. There is, said White, "a 'grave danger' of abuse of discretion." The decision means that police will no longer be able to use such dubious reasons as the length of a driver's hair or the color of his skin to stop a car. In the court's view, wrote White, random checks by policemen are "an unsettling show of authority...
...rebate--were to result in only a 5 per cent decrease in the overall demand for oil it would be well worth the effort since U.S. oil supplies are currently only 2.5 per cent below demand, according to government estimates. The benefits of such a program would seem to outweigh the costs...