Word: outweigh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costs; the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the fears of energy shortages that followed caused them to wonder whether they could find fuel to power new plants, and at what price. Investment always involves some risk, of course, but in the minds of many executives the risks now outweigh the potential rewards. Says Grant Simmons Jr., chairman of Simmons Co., the Georgia mattress maker: "Ten years ago, management would make investment decisions on the basis of intuitive, broad-stroke guesses. Now we want to be damn sure we see the fish in the barrel before we shoot...
...JULIA's strengths much outweigh its flaws. Although Zinnemann occasionally lapses into such cliches as juxtaposing plush hotels with Nazi terror to make statements about inequality--a gimmick that should have gone out with War and Peace--his direction is usually sound and the cast generally rises above any momentary awkwardness. To some, Lillian Hellman is a heroic cult figure; to others she is a commercialized martyr. In Julia, though, she is simply human, retracing in her memory a cherished portrait...
...hardly a secret: name plates, partly in Cyrillic lettering, identify them as MADE IN THE U.S.S.R.) and often counsel reluctant customers that "it's better to trade than to shoot." Nonetheless, Chambers admits that some farmers simply refuse to consider buying "Commie tractors." Others find that practical considerations outweigh ideology. At prices typically ranging from $4,600 to $12,000, Belarus' line of five models undersells its American rivals by anywhere from 15% to 20% or more. The Soviet tractors, made in plants in Minsk, Kharkov, Lipetsk, Vladimir and Kirov, are less plushly fitted out than American makes...
...beneficial medical uses of saccharin outweigh its potential carcinogenic effects, a Medical School professor testified at a hearing before the House Committee on Health and the Environment this week...
...consulting psychologist, I want to raise a vigorous objection to the conclusion of your article "Merchants of Debt" [Feb. 28]. You assert that "the advantages of widespread easy credit far outweigh its drawbacks ... psychologically, in the ability to satisfy impulse and indulge expansive moods...