Word: tradeoffs
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...terms of cutting membership, there is always a tradeoff between reducing bureaucracy and maintaining a representative group of students. Cutting the UC roster only risks losing hard-working people with intiative who may not be the one or two most popular people in their houses. It is a complex issue that does indeed merit serious consideration, but the solution is not as simple as slashing the number of eligible positions to three-fifths...
Lewis said that farther-reaching proposals that call for some give and-take might not receive much support from the Faculty Council. "There didn't seem to be much of a tradeoff on the issue," he said. "In an issue where there is a general tradeoff it's probably going to be more complicated...
...sovereignty and human rights. But "no blood for oil" chants dismiss too glibly the real pain that Iraqi control of oil reserves would exert. For example, doctors report increased malnutrition among Boston children, as their parents must use more of their disposable income to heat their homes. The tradeoff between oil and food is even more acute in the Third World. War is always more palatable when we are fighting for higher principles, not "vital interests." But in this war, higher principles and vital interests are largely--though by no means perfectly--in harmony, and the interests we are protecting...
Conservatives disapprove of state actions to ensure distributive equity because they believe in the universal truth of the "efficiency-equity tradeoff." In the words of Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, any attempt to redistribute the pie results in a smaller pie. Welfare creates perverse incentives not to work and reduces the efficiency of business--the so-called "leaky bucket." Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes is fond of calling redistribution a "parasite" on the body of a healthy capitalist economy...
...want public transit as good public policynot as a tradeoff for doing a bad highwayproject," said Chapman...