Word: outweighed
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Most parents say the benefits of raising a family at Harvard outweigh the difficulties. "I would hope that the students feel they would profit from seeing a family around," Fincke says. "Not that I would expect us to be the ideal family--maybe the opposite--but I like to give people another image of a family than that of their own parents. I wish I'd had more contact with married people when I was an undergraduate...
...study of long-distance runners to find the answer to this question. Until he does, says Researcher Gilbert Gleim of the Institute of Sports Medicine at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. fitness freaks should keep on running or jogging. The known benefits of such exercise, he says, far outweigh any known disadvantages. ∙ ∙ ∙ Jogger's kidney is not the only problem plaguing those involved in the great American running boom. An even more exotic ailment is "jogger's nipples," an irritation caused by the rubbing of a runner's shirt against skin. This condition...
...transnational corporations help blacks. But in South Africa all black organizations except those sponsored by the regime, and virtually all anti-apartheid organizations, black and white, have called for withdrawal of foreign investment from South Africa. They feel that the strategic and economic support transnations give the regime far outweigh the few jobs at starvation-level wages they provide blacks. In the words of the late Chief Albert J. Luthuli, President of the African National Congress of South Africa and Peace Prize winner...
Several Harvard admissions officers said yesterday that although they sympathized with some of Slack's criticisms, the benefits of the tests outweigh their faults...
Advocates of recombinant DNA research have been insisting that potential benefits from the ingenious new technique of genetic engineering far outweigh any dangers that it could pose. Last week scientists testifying before a Senate subcommittee lent strong support to that argument. They revealed that a group of California researchers has spliced a man-made gene into a bacterium, and then, for the first time, used the altered microbe to make a copy of a mammalian brain hormone that can act biologically in humans. The accomplishment brought closer the day when scarce and costly hormones and enzymes needed for treatment...