Word: tradeoffs
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...Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) talks, which deal with medium-range missiles in Europe, if the Soviet Union proposed such a move. The next day, however, Richard Burt, the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, dampened hopes by saying that the U.S. had no plans for either the "tradeoff" or the arms-talk merger. Soviet rhetoric also mixed bombast and hints of accommodation...
...payoff were somewhat higher (though not necessarily equivalent to the private sector) and I am optimistic most would. It is quite noble to expect the American people not to ask what their country can do for them, but what they can do for their country. Given the tradeoff, however, most would choose the former. Nevertheless, it is unclear why the two must be mutually exclusive. If the option existed to do something for our country while our country did something for us, more people would clearly help out. Instead of slashing the Legal Services Corporation and scrapping the Volunteers...
...economic miracle, he could have gone down as one of the great Presidents. Unfortunately, he had no notion of the economic pitfalls, and he overborrowed and relied too much on technocrats. He was never an economist. You can be authoritarian in Asia, provided there is an economic tradeoff...
Their methods represent a tradeoff between "absolute experimental control and the realism and benefits of studying what people really do cognitively," Pillemer says...
...government would not necessarily create jobs, but would pay teenagers to help non-profit organizations or to repair and build public facilities, in groups modelled after the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps. Some proponents have suggested that the money would come out of cuts in the military, a tradeoff the forces might be willing to make in return for more and higher qualified 18-year-olds...