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Of course when the down-side of such policies do occur and thus real children are facing real consequences, such policies become impossible to defend if you haven't acknowledged the possibility of consequences in the first place.
Abolish High School?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Fitness, for some people, means a whacked-out obstacle course with a serious down-side
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As a down-side, the draconian attitude risks making the religion alienating and unwelcoming, thereby impeding its spread to new recruits.
Michael Graziano: The Darwinian Evolution of Religion Michael Graziano 2011
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The down-side is that the hinge on our SS decadent West inghouse gets a rigorous workout at the hands of the teen tribes that troop through our house pantry & fridge - so that anything attached via magnets gets distributed across the kitchen floor.
Cheeseburger Gothic » The sky is not falling! The sky is not falling! 2009
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On the down-side, auction houses siphon off a lot in fees, which can rise to 25% of the value of the item.
Pricing the Priceless Tara Loader Wilkinson 2011
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As a down-side, the liberal religion risks dilution of its core beliefs and therefore its own extinction.
Michael Graziano: The Darwinian Evolution of Religion Michael Graziano 2011
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On the down-side, I managed to split/tear the only pair of comfortable pants I own.
It's Alive, ALIVE....Wait, No It's Not. cybergremlin 2009
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The only down-side to a PC is the screens aren't necessarily as big and its still not standard (and a bit dorky) to have a controller hooked up to one.
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That price unpredictability would be okay if he benefited from the up-side as often as he suffered from the down-side, but the reality is that if he makes an agreement to sell at $10 and the price goes up to $12 over the course of the day, he is stuck with his original deal.
Elizabeth McVay Greene: What the Farm Gives: A Morning at the Wholesale Farmers' Market 2010
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That price unpredictability would be okay if he benefited from the up-side as often as he suffered from the down-side, but the reality is that if he makes an agreement to sell at $10 and the price goes up to $12 over the course of the day, he is stuck with his original deal.
Elizabeth McVay Greene: What the Farm Gives: A Morning at the Wholesale Farmers' Market 2010
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