Word: trade-offs
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The feeling is that there must be a trade-off somewhere. Every hour devoted to learning something academic--and Yale students do believe they learn a certain amount--is an hour during which one loses sight of another side of life. Students say they are "crippled" emotionally; they never learn...
As for the overall program of public sector education, you can't help feeling that there isn't a trade-off being made somewhere, because basically Harvard is educating bureaucrats to be bureaucrats, even if they go back to Washington being better bureaucrats. By the time they leave Harvard they...
Proud of her son for winning a Royal Academy of Music fellowship when he was eleven, Sheila Dwight arranged a trade-off with him. If he would continue studying classics at the academy, she would permit him to spend as much free time as he wanted practicing the pops. After...
There would be, therefore, no incompatibility between liberty and justice or trade-off between efficiency and equity. This does not, however, justify the present income and wealth distribution either. Because of the many government interventions that have provided unjust benefits to the rich, they would have to pay indemnities to...
"We are headed for a recession so deep that there won't be tight markets and the trade-off will be between one per cent decreased unemployment and only one-half or three-fourths per cent inflation," Eckstein said.