Word: trade-offs
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Women tend to suffer their first heart attack 10 years older than men. Yet, partly because the women are older, those heart attacks are more often fatal. This is a postmenopausal phenomenon, a trade-off for years of protection from estrogen. Staying bathed in the hormone keeps blood vessels elastic...
Governments will also be judged more and more on their ability to address the social repercussions of the globalization process and to find ways to balance its destabilizing impact. The new globality means a tremendous emphasis on speed, flexibility, versatility and permanent change--in some respects, insecurity. But, in most...
But Munoz said the trade-off was worth it.
"I'm on hormone therapy for the rest of my life, but I think it's a good trade-off to being healthy and being able to live a normal life," Janowski says.
One result was that thoughts on plans become "based on rumor." Power acknowledges that, "It's a trade-off that I think I need to work on."