Word: trade-offs
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"Senator Kennedy views it as a trade-offbetween education and tax breaks for the nation'swealthiest citizens, and it's a trade-off he isnot willing to support," said an aide to Kennedyon the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.
Perhaps because they sit atop some of America's most fertile land-the topsoil, the remains of a prehistoric lake bed, can run 6 ft. deep -- many Cass County farmers say they are ready for change. Most find the welter of farm programs confining and confusing; many would prefer to...
Should we lower the drinking age to 18? Most definitely. Can we? The answer is a decided no. There is no easy answer. Abandoning the national minimum drinking age would cause a tremendous trade-off in human lives that just is not worth the cost. In the final analysis, American...
Throughout his nine years teaching "Ec 10," Professor Martin Feldstein, who may well call this paradox a typical "trade-off," has seldom known what is going on down there in the 900-strong audience when he was standing in the dim light on the stage of Sanders Theatre.
Rosen and Lane, who report this information in The New Republic, were unspecific about the possibility of a comparable trade-off among Asian, white and Black females.