Word: tradeoff
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...deciding whether to watch an episode of Grey’s Anatomy or study for a chemistry midterm, a Harvard student might express the tradeoff in terms of “opportunity costs.” The same student who failed to calculate his “opportunity costs” properly might comfort himself when failing that midterm the next day by remembering that he has a “comparative advantage” in lots of other subjects...
...Representatives from student arts groups were at the meeting and voiced complaints about the necessity of selling tickets through the HBO in order to make tickets available to low-income students.“I often hear from groups that for them there often seems to be a tradeoff between making your events available at the box office and ‘losing money’ because students are going to get tickets for free,” says Anene.Naabia G. Ofosu-Amaah ’07, president and former business manager of Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, says that...
...liquid-crystal display, its 6-in. screen uses E-Ink technology. Each of its finely packed pixels can be white or black but they don't shimmer or emit any light, so the experience is eerily like looking at paper, high in contrast and relaxing on the eye. The tradeoff is that E-Ink can't yet refresh fast enough to show video, and even scrolling or zooming is a complicated business, but that's not the purpose of the Reader. Even without a backlight, you can read every page of any e-book in all of the same settings...
...tradeoff between present resources and future personal success is certainly a sad calculation to make. The solution, however, is not to eliminate abortion, which, given today’s social conditions, may sometimes be the better decision. It is to create a social environment that reduces the incidence of unwanted pregnancy, and that lessens the socioeconomic pressures that drive women to abort...
...Motivated, but perhaps also haunted. The looking-glass quality of images of the wounded and dying, after all, makes for a difficult paradox. Military public affairs officers must make a tradeoff when granting media embedded access within medical units. While it is an opportunity to see the successes of military medicine -- one highly touted fact is that 90 percent of the wounded in Iraq survive -- it is also the chance to witness the emotional and physical suffering of the those injured, fatally...