Word: tradeoff
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Still, an equal tradeoff is rarely exacted. All too often, books seem to have a clear advantage over film, if only evidenced by the oft-heard, “Yeah, the movie was good, but the book was better.” And biographical films seem especially prone to this disparity. A successful biographical film must take advantage of at least one of several saving graces: superb acting, historical interest, surpassing cinematographic treatment or a truly remarkable real-life epic. The following are salient examples of biographical films that have done this; it seems dubious that Riding in Cars will...
...history when they overwhelmingly approved a referendum to limit state representatives and senators to four consecutive terms. The only organized opposition came from legislators themselves. People have a right to restrict their choices, and with term limits they have done so deliberately and with the full understanding of the tradeoff it entails. In exchange for partially limiting their choices among candidates, they correctly believe that they are limiting also the accumulation of political power in the hands...
...while community initiatives such as the affordable housing or summer school funding deals may help smooth relations on the governmental level, residents directly opposed to University proposals don’t think the tradeoff is worth...
...Gore stuffed his five minutes with words like he'd stuffed his hour at the convention closer in L.A.; the tradeoff was a nice lack of condescension. This might have been the new most important speech of his political career, and since the whole point was the attention span of the American people, he wasn't about to tax it much...
...riding lawnmowers in Belize--certainly I can't imagine that too many of us put that on the "career interests" section of our college applications. Nevertheless, each autumn, many seniors come to the realization that Belize's horticultural tendencies can be deeply compelling. Indeed, when faced with the tradeoff between a six-figure debt from grad school and a six-figure salary from I-banking, you have to be honest with yourself about what you can afford to do with your life. And yet, what you can afford to do with your life depends very much on what you need...