Word: outweighs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shaking off bad manufacturing habits may be expensive, but it pays. Companies say that eliminating the waste and bureaucratic backtracking caused by defective products can save as much as 30% on production costs. Says Milliken: "Quality is not cheap. But the potential savings far outweigh the cost of going after...
...insidious effects of Thornburgh's reading of the property law outweigh its benefits. The reason former Attornies General never interpreted the property statute to include leakers is because they did not want it to be used against whistleblowers...
...betraying its own conscience and remaining exclusively male only so that it may keep its national charter, Sigma Alpha Mu faces the problem every new national fraternity attempting to start at Harvard must deal with: do the benefits of national recognition really outweigh the inability of local officers and members to dictate their own organizations...
...tusks go to collection points, and from there are carried across the continent, hidden in gas tankers and cargo trucks, personal luggage and shipping crates. The rewards far outweigh the risks. The owner of a truck carrying $2 million worth of illicit tusks and rhino horns was fined a mere $2,613 by Botswa officials last year. His cargo was said to be bound for a South African firm with Hong Kong connections. Despite crackdowns, the poachers are undaunted. Just two weeks ago, in a predawn raid on a farm, Namibian officials seized 980 tusks...
...today's fast-buck standards, farming is a sucker bet. The risks greatly outweigh the rewards, unless, like Bauer, you count looking up from your chores to watch a flight of geese or down at some of the richest soil in the world. According to Sally's accounting, the year Rhodes hung around was so-so: the family netted $19,000 on a gross income...