Word: trade-offs
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"It's always a trade-off between the comfort factor and the academic," Naddaff said.
At the college, by contrast, attending one class during shopping period necessarily means missing out on the introduction to another course. Even if we wiggle our way out in the middle of the hour to scramble to another lecture, we unavoidably lose out on its opening. The KSG system demands...
The director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, hurries us past all the desperate explanations required by sequels to movies that ended up pretty definitively (the last we saw of Ripley in Alien 3, she was taking a dunk in molten metal). Since most of these are incomprehensible anyway, especially as they are...
The speakers were asked about Russian-Chinese relations, the relevance of the military in the post-Cold War world, and the trade-off between economic growth and long-term stability.
This attitude is revealed in two other controversies: the Communications Decency Act (the Internet censorship law overturned by the Supreme Court in June) and encryption (a still unresolved conflict concerning government efforts to stop the spread of uncrackable computerized secret codes). In both these cases, unlike in the tax issue...