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  • n  an exchange that occurs as a compromise
    I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine

  • Theres a tradeoff here Alabamans pay the lowest state taxes in the nation, but they also rank near the bottom in quality of education.
News & Articles

  • 'Mad Men' Season 6, Episode 11 Recap - 'Favors'
    (AMC) Only three episodes left, you guys! (Counting this one.) It feels like something bad is going to happen, doesn't it? Let's get started. We open with Peggy, who has some unwanted rodent guests in her apartment. But no Abe! So it's a tradeoff, really. Meanwhile, Pete's mother, and her new Bob Benson-recommended man-nurse, are at the SCDPCGC Sterling, Cooper, and Partners "I'm glad you both ...
    June 10, 2013 - StyleBistro
  • Security sacrifices liberties
    On June 6, The Guardian published an article about PRISM, a U.S. government-directed program of spying on our Internet activity, that made my blood boil. But it also leaves America with a tough question: If there is a tradeoff between security and civil liberties, what's the right balance?
    June 10, 2013 - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Quotes

  • Rahm Emanuel in BusinessWeek
    The president has simply offered more of the same, proposing a budget that cuts ...... from Medicare and Medicaid, while sending $240 billion more in American taxpayer dollars to Iraq,said Rep. Rahm Emmanuel, D-Ill. "This is not a tradeoff...
  • Ephraim Sneh in International Herald Tribune
    At the moment we modify the standards, we can have in our hands more cards for this tradeoff,Sneh said. "We give ourselves broader room to maneuver and more flexibility to achieve what we would like to achieve."
  • Barack Obama in Sydney Morning Herald
    Targeting a demographic that has proven resistant to his call for change, Obama said in prepared remarks for a rally here: "Healthcare shouldn't be some kind of either-or tradeoff where our seniors get left out in the cold. When you've worked hard...

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