Word: outweighing
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...infiltrated Ecuador's armed forces and police - remarks that seem to all but assure that the small South American nation will not renew the lease for the U.S. antinarcotics surveillance base at Manta on Ecuador's Pacific coast. For Correa, "the political costs" of letting the base stay "outweigh the benefits," says Freddy Rivera, a security expert at the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty University in Quito...
...nature of the project, they also encouraged its immediate application. “In the short run this is really a bad problem,” said Mun Ho, a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences. He reminded the audience that the benefits of reducing pollution far outweigh the costs. China’s air pollution track record has come under scrutiny recently in the months leading up to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. The government has committed to cleaning the city’s air in time for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, though the speakers said...
...beneficial for the country in the long term, because it would weed out inefficient operators and boost China's productivity. A period of "creative destruction" is an inevitable part of any business cycle. China's economic policymakers can only hope that the creative aspects of the coming shakeout outweigh the destruction...
...lacked a critical mass of students, Mass. Hall was usually home to a notoriously tight-knit dorm community. And even now that the College will have to rent the residential space that it once owned from the University, the benefits of welcoming freshmen back into Mass. Hall will far outweigh any bureaucratic inconvenience. Mass. Hall’s function as a dormitory achieves that for which Harvard constantly strives: a delicate balance between incorporating the College’s colorful history, remaining faithful to tradition, and adapting the institution as it has developed from Puritan college to modern University. Mass...
...reveal subsidies are, as a general rule, inefficient; they distort incentives and create deadweight loss. While they can produce artificially low prices at the grocery store, the funds paying for this difference come straight out of consumers’ wallets in the form of tax dollars. Ultimately the costs outweigh the benefits. American farm subsidies are no exception, and have the added drawback of incurring the ire of foreign farmers who find themselves undersold by government-backed U.S. agriculture. This consistently creates a roadblock in international trade negations, as evidenced by the near failure of the trade liberalization talks...