Word: tradeoffs
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...riding lawnmowers in Belize--certainly I can't imagine that too many of us put that on the "career interests" section of our college applications. Nevertheless, each autumn, many seniors come to the realization that Belize's horticultural tendencies can be deeply compelling. Indeed, when faced with the tradeoff between a six-figure debt from grad school and a six-figure salary from I-banking, you have to be honest with yourself about what you can afford to do with your life. And yet, what you can afford to do with your life depends very much on what you need...
...problem, instead, is the other aspects of life that suffer when a student starts to prioritize ambition and advancement above family and friends. When students choose to throw themselves wholeheartedly into a job far from home, they may gain valuable experience, but there is a tradeoff--they lose the close interaction and involvement with family and friends that were the hallmark of their life before they came to college...
...George W. Bush has ventured far enough out of smile-and-wave mode to make some noises along McConnell's line ? make a CPI adjustment to the current hard-money limits and require full disclosure of contributors. "If a grand compromise is made," says Carney, "that could be the tradeoff: a soft-money ban in exchange for more hard money." That's still a long way from "one man, one vote" ? the rich will still get all the access when their man wins ? but maybe the influence wouldn't be as widespread, and as party-driven...
...Most faculty people require lengthening the paper--the philosophy is you want to kill two birds with one stone," said Nguyen. "They hate to see someone take the easy way out, I think that is the tradeoff...
...tradeoff: the sound quality over the Internet isn't quite as high as those of direct-dialed calls...