Word: tradeoffs
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Luckily, Congressional leaders are no longer as concerned with seeming to be unpatriotic and new policy battles are raging. Politicians began to weigh in on the new anti-terrorism measures recently passed by the House and Senate, acknowledging the necessity of debating the tradeoff between security and civil liberties. Other proposals related to Sept. 11, such as arming pilots, have also split legislative committees. But while those debates defied party lines, the most contentious and most partisan issue is the President’s economic relief package...
Still, an equal tradeoff is rarely exacted. All too often, books seem to have a clear advantage over film, if only evidenced by the oft-heard, “Yeah, the movie was good, but the book was better.” And biographical films seem especially prone to this disparity. A successful biographical film must take advantage of at least one of several saving graces: superb acting, historical interest, surpassing cinematographic treatment or a truly remarkable real-life epic. The following are salient examples of biographical films that have done this; it seems dubious that Riding in Cars will...
...history when they overwhelmingly approved a referendum to limit state representatives and senators to four consecutive terms. The only organized opposition came from legislators themselves. People have a right to restrict their choices, and with term limits they have done so deliberately and with the full understanding of the tradeoff it entails. In exchange for partially limiting their choices among candidates, they correctly believe that they are limiting also the accumulation of political power in the hands...
...while community initiatives such as the affordable housing or summer school funding deals may help smooth relations on the governmental level, residents directly opposed to University proposals don’t think the tradeoff is worth...
...Gore stuffed his five minutes with words like he'd stuffed his hour at the convention closer in L.A.; the tradeoff was a nice lack of condescension. This might have been the new most important speech of his political career, and since the whole point was the attention span of the American people, he wasn't about to tax it much...