Word: trade-offs
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"After this year's flooding and low crop yields, many Poles have a premonition that things can only get worse," says Irena Lasota-Zabludowska, 35, an emigre from Warsaw, now studying at Columbia University in New York City "People are beginning to say, 'This winter we're...
In Anderson they found a man who supports the Panama Canal and SALT II treaties, gun control, the Equal Rights Amendment and some forms of school-busing, and who opposes the MX missile, B-1 bomber and selective service registration. His record on civil rights has been particularly distinguished; it...
John J. Gabarro, professor of Organizational Behavior also feels that some systemized knowledge is best taught through lecture or through problem sets "disguised as miniature cases." But, he adds, there is a trade-off made in gaining the efficiency of a lecture and losing the student active student participation of...
Of course, none of these disadvantages will be easily overcome. Since the satellites in the 1980s will almost certainly have to turn increasingly to OPEC for oil, there will be more inflation and shortages. That is causing considerable worry among the commissars. The trade-off for the deprivation of individual...
...The trade-off argument is a convenient, but questionable excuse. Some professors, after all, do shoulder the burden of an extra tutorial without sacrificing their lecture courses. And instruction lecture is sometimes not quite the exhaustive commitment it's made out to be. Standing up a few hours each week...