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...John Veneziano, the tradeoff is more than worth...
...There is a definite tradeoff between studying and ROTC unless you give up your social life," says the midshipman, who is "pretty sure" he is going to quit ROTC next year. "If ROTC was more flexible to allow for greater participation in other activities, I think it would benefit their program and they would be able to retain more people...
True, no other school has as long a reading period as Harvard. But most other schools have winter vacations three, four, even five weeks long. And their finals are before vacation. There's a tradeoff involved. We sacrifice a long, tension-free vacation. In exchange, we are supposed to receive a two-week reading period. Having little choice in the matter, we kept our end of the bargain. But the university cheated, stealthily stealing four days which should have been ours. It's hardly worth having finals after vacation for just a week and a half of extra work time...
Lobbyists said Rostenkowski promised key Congressmen a tradeoff: in return for backing the bond cap--whose effects would be felt especially hard in the East, which has a lot of private universities--he would back other proposals to allow taxpayers to deduct state and city taxes from federal tax bills...
...mercy also extends to the buried SS soldiers." God's mercy, perhaps, but not America's tribute Only God and the victims can give the Nazi butchers their ultimate forgiveness. The President offers German consciences a flawed pardon at the expense of historical understandings; this is an unacceptable tradeoff. By his words and planned visit. President Reagan has blurred the distinction between the murderers and their victims--a disservice to the past and future...