Word: outweigh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class ranks the choice is more complex. Pollees must decide whether student freedom and university autonomy outweigh the obvious disadvantages of relying completely on the draft exams, or whether there is some third factor that can be used as long as the student deferment continues...
...Southern California, and pulp mill smog in the north. I have endured wood "smog" in mill towns and near forest fires. Somehow, in spite of the "blue haze," the mountain air seems pure, refreshing and invigorating. The action of trees producing oxygen from carbon dioxide and water should outweigh any "arboreal pollution." All pollution should...
...Civil Rights Act, federal money cannot be appropriated for public institutions that practice racial discrimination. A last-minute campaign by Social Security Commissioner Robert Ball, who is the overall Medicare administrator, has convinced some Dixie hospital administrators that the financial benefits offered by guaranteed Medicare payments outweigh outmoded habits of bigotry. Yet right now, only one-fourth of the hospitals in the South can qualify for Medicare coverage on grounds of desegregation-a fact that will cause critical pressures on the few integrated institutions that will have to carry the entire Medicare load...
...Since no fewer than 1,800,000 youngsters come of draft age each year, he seemed to be absolutely right about the cost. And the potential waste caused by plucking brilliant scientists or badly needed prospective doctors from college in the midst of their studies would seem likely to outweigh any benefits that might flow from their spending extended time serving the Government-no matter how altruistic their duties...
...other mergers of the time, was cleared with three regulatory agencies, the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The three agencies, following Congressional dictates set down in the bank merger act of 1960, approved any linkup in which community benefit seemed to outweigh the diminishing of competition. But in 1963, reviewing the case of a Philadelphia merger, the Supreme Court ruled that, regardless of economic benefit, a bank merger could still be a legal violation of the Clayton Antitrust...