Word: outweighed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other issues as well, obstacles appear to outweigh opportunities. The Administration would like to loosen some restrictions on U.S.-Soviet trade, but the Pentagon is concerned about Moscow's acquiring American technology that could have military applications. The two sides have been dickering for years over opening new consulates, but the recent wave of spy scandals in the U.S. has increased FBI concerns about Soviet diplomatic offices' providing cover for KGB agents. Also, Soviet and American diplomats have been discussing cooperation in regions where the superpowers support opposing forces: Afghanistan, the Middle East and southern Africa. But these talks...
...congressional inability to agree so far on immigration reform may reflect a collective judgment that the minuses of reform still outweigh the pluses. Kentucky Congressman Mazzoli argues that the wearying battle to change U.S. immigration law is "not urgent, except in the sense that it is more difficult to obtain reform as time goes on." A comment from former California Governor Jerry Brown is also worthy of consideration. Eventually, he guesses, some form of an additionally restrictive immigration law will be passed. Then he asks, "But will it make any difference...
...Atlanta physician, has a Jaguar XJ6 on his shopping list, a burgundy-colored four-door sedan. "You can get a Jaguar in the mid-20s," he says, "and they're at least $35,000 in the U.S. You have to have it modified for EPA regulations, but the savings outweigh the modification costs...
From neighborhood meetings with company officials in nearby Arlington and Belmont to the chambers of the Cambridge City Council, a chorus of politicians and citizens alike have echoed one resounding sentiment the risks associated with the testing of toxic nerve agents far outweigh any benefits to the third a densely population populated city in America...
...country's leading education institutions and as the home of some of the most important liberal and conservative thought in the country, Harvard's decision to divest would add moral and intellectual credibility to the divestiture movement as a whole. The impact of such a move would far outweigh any minor workplace improvement made possible by what Harvard has euphemistically called "intensive dialogue...