Word: trade-offs
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Hours after Bush spoke, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates overturned six years of resistance by his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, and recommended to the President that the Army and the Marine Corps both be significantly increased over the next few years. Gates proposed that the Army grow by 65,000, to...
This week demonstrated just how slippery adhering to rules can be. The Petersen-Sundquist campaign amassed 305 points of campaign violations (based largely on e-mail violations) out of a possible 400 point limit. E-mails cannot be unsent, and requiring campaigns to take down posters as a penalty for...
But will home and building owners make the trade-off? The firm has launched its product in Spain, targeting the developers of some 200,000 single-family homes it says are being built in the country each year. Olofsson expects the first ClimateWell systems to be running in 2008-09...
The difference between us was that I was concerned about first impressions, even if it meant that I held back on acting like myself. He may not have been particularly polished, but the trade-off was that he possessed a certain aura of authenticity missing from the Harvard guys I?...
TerraCycle staff members also must deal with components that differ slightly from those in the last batch--worm excrement with nitrate levels a touch lower than last month's, nozzles that don't fit properly in the boxes being shipped to stores. "There tends to be a lot of variability...