Word: outweighing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defend its ability to compete. But Stodghill says there's no end in sight. "It's already gone on longer than anyone predicted," he says, and notes that even Wall Street -- generally supportive anytime management gets tough with labor -- has started to worry that the strike's duration may outweigh any benefits derived from taking a hard line. GM stock dropped more than two points Monday after weekend talks blew up, and was creeping back Tuesday only because analysts had fully expected the earnings carnage. In a desperate ploy, GM has asked a federal court to order the UAW into...
...only is the plot of Dog Days a total cliche--it ends sappily ever after when Reilly, the yuppie boy, realizes love can somehow outweigh money--the characters are stereotyped to the point of offending. Throughout the novel, all the Italians living in Reilly's North End neighborhood are either connected with the Mafia or are vulgar and stupid thugs, while the Boston Irish are crude drunks (including Reilly's mother!). The women are beautiful yet emotionally damaged by problematic relationships with their fathers. Even Reilly's supposed best friend and roommate cannot escape the ethnic pigeonholing, as he hails...
...compete in the local phone game would encourage the Bells to enter the long-distance phone market -- and that means more competition all around. Nader or no Nader, says McCullagh, "it looks like the merger will go through. Both Democrats and Republicans have been saying the benefits far outweigh any drawbacks...
...weighs in at a tiny fraction of the mass of the electron (until now, the lightest particle known). For elementary-particle physicists, that means their most basic theories will have to be rewritten; for astronomers, it means that the missing "dark matter" believed to pervade the cosmos and far outweigh the visible stars may no longer be missing...
Well, maybe not. For one thing, it would cost more than $1,000 a year. And the drug has potentially serious side effects, including possible liver and muscle damage, both of which could be aggravated the longer I take the stuff. Neither factor would necessarily outweigh lovastatin's benefits. But consider this: while lovastatin reduced "acute major coronary events" more than a third, 90% of those in the placebo group didn't develop such major heart problems either...