But often thought of as being mutually exclusive, cost and quality are not a tradeoff.
And when it comes to housing, there is always a tradeoff between interest rates and price.
The theory of optimum currency areas says, in brief, that countries face a tradeoff between convenience and adjustment.
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Hastert, R-Illinois, explained the approach being taken by Congress as a tradeoff.
In some quarters free expression online could become a tradeoff: Say anything you like, so long as we know who really is saying it.
The economics of patents accepts that there is a tradeoff here.
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You've got a tradeoff here between the deeper liquidity found in the nearer-term contracts and the lower trading costs of buying far-out futures that don't have to be rolled over so often.
In short, prosperity, for all of its wonders, and those wonders include what it says about men existing for their rational selves, has a tradeoff in the form of an electorate that gets flabby.
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There is a tradeoff between risk and reward.
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Call it a balance or perhaps a tradeoff.
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But a senior Bush administration official downplayed suggestions that Bush was offering a tradeoff, saying the White House still believes that the trade deal "deserves to pass on its own merits" without being linked to anything else.
But I mean, is he going to be -- for instance, he might not, in his perfect world, want to, say, raise the eligibility age for Medicare, but he would be willing to do it as a tradeoff.
This posits that there is a tradeoff between economic growth and inflation: that to gin up an economy a central bank must print more money (which eventually leads to more inflation), and that to bring inflation down a central bank must tighten money (which slows down the economy).
But it would still be a bad tradeoff, and a bad idea.
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When Vint and his colleagues chose that 32-bit address space they thought they were just making a simple engineering tradeoff based on a seemingly predictable future.
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That is a crazy tradeoff even if it didn't endanger the electric grid.
Vendors directed to these technologies face a classic tradeoff and cannot pay as much attention to the global opportunity as other competitors.
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If the United States were already at full employment that would be a very bad tradeoff, amount to a decline in average American living standards.
Against the alternative--dying--the decline in sales seems like a decent tradeoff.
The top, on the other hand, is a whole lot of empty space -- there's no camera here or on the rear, a "tradeoff, " according to company reps, but one they're confident won't distract from the devices greater mission: reading.
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The Fed faces a very dangerous tradeoff: risk higher inflation by expanding the monetary base (currency plus bank reserves) in a vain attempt to lower unemployment.
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But at a time of mass unemployment, it looks like a pretty good tradeoff that should raise per capita output and average incomes.
The tradeoff for a longer sales cyle: Women will be loyal and give you immense unpaid media.
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