Word: tradeoff
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...discover The Store after moving into Wigglesworth, she says, but it was the view of Emack and Bolio's from her window that really drove her to addiction. "It's staring at you all the time, it's expensive, and it's closed." But, of course, there's a tradeoff: "I feel so guilty for going and buying Heavenly Hash at dawn after an all-nighter when my roommate's back typing a paper...
National security and military vigilance have an unquestionably vital importance, especially today. Taxpayers should know, however, the real cost of a $1.5 trillion defense buildup. A tradeoff exists: while fares on the MBTA have tripled in the last year, the entire MBTA budget ($60 million) equals less than the cost of three F/A-18 fighter planes (1366 are planned). In the end, political support for economic conversion does not amount to a choice of butter over guns. The question is of civilians demanding the right to participate in the decision of how many guns will replace their butter. In struggling...
...what good is a well-informed professor if he is never around for students to speak with? Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, who set up Data Resources Inc. and adopted half-time status in 1973 to work at the firm, acknowldges the tradeoff involved when a professor consults. "There is a loss; professors are not as findable," he says...
...compared with members of most other unions; indeed, about 20 who play unusually demanding instruments such as the horn and the oboe already had four performance weeks. The precise details of the settlement awaited this week's ratification vote, but it almost certainly represented a mutually acceptable tradeoff. "We got to the top in more ways than the 17th floor," exults Violinist Sandor Balint. The management is just as happy. "I'm elated," says Bliss. The real hero is Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, who persuaded both sides to lay aside their almost pathological hostilities. Says he: "They...
...aggression of 1968 was the dilatory pace of U.S. leadership. An original impulse for a firm, internationally backed retaliation had 'tailed off until it was 'too late' because of endless, benumbing maneuvers at the U.N. This time, said Carter, the U.S. would have to be more aware of the 'tradeoff between bringing others aboard and taking unilateral U.S. action.' The President almost seemed to be warning himself that too much time must not be squandered in searching for an ailied response to the Kremlin...