Word: trade-offs
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State authorities worry about air pollution, particularly the hydrocarbons that will escape when the tankers unload at Long Beach. The California Air Resources Board argues that pollution in the Los Angeles area is already higher than federal standards permit. Under the Federal Clean Air Act the board has ruled that...
Krupnick has often heard about the alleged trade-off between teaching and research ability, but does not believe in it, although Harvard seems to value research over teaching. "Research gives life to the University," she says. "Research grants create an intellectual atmosphere and bring new fun's in. Good teachers...
"There might be a trade-off between University recognition of the student assembly and the minority clause," Epps said, adding that former Harvard-Radcliffe Constitutional Convention delegates should seek legal counsel.
These fragile systems are under constant threat. And the situation could further deteriorate as searchers probe the ocean for oil. The fields that may soon be opened in the fertile fishing grounds of Georges Bank, writes Mrs. Simon, will have a 20-year life, during which there is a 91...
American Samoa's rural villages are clean and dotted with palm-frond fales (houses), instead of the jumble of cinder block and clapboard houses commonly found in Micronesia. The magnificent Pago Pago harbor that initially attracted the U.S. Navy in 1900 is no longer pristine, but two busy canneries...