Compromise
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Perhaps most importantly, local leaders repeatedly rose to the challenge of compromise, not always fast and not always enthusiastically, but rise in the end they did.
It needs to help them reach an equitable compromise, and it needs to ensure that a broad coalition of local, regional and international supporters help them implement their agreement.
Conflict parties need to move away from maximum demands and towards a
compromise
that recognizes each other's needs.
Now if we manage to
compromise
these systems that control drive speeds and valves, we can actually cause a lot of problems with the centrifuge.
There's so little
compromise
on this, you can't see it.
But unfortunately, the likes of me and people that are like me have to deal with
compromise
all the time with beauty.
I've had to make a bit of a
compromise
there.
Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country, they can
compromise
our security, they can undermine democracy, they can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
Two recent examples are the
compromise
of a large amount of data from the Bundestag, the national Parliament of Germany, and the theft of emails from the US Democratic National Committee.
So the only things I could manage to obtain was a kind of a
compromise.
I personally think that it's easier to actually create a place than to find a place, because then you don't need to
compromise
with the ideas in your head.
Siblings teach each other conflict avoidance and conflict resolution, when to stand up for themselves, when to stand down; they learn love, loyalty, honesty, sharing, caring, compromise, the disclosure of secrets and much more important, the keeping of confidences.
They were able to
compromise
every single one of the pieces of software that controlled every single one of the wireless capabilities of the car.
Well, you
compromise
the car by a buffer overflow of vulnerability in the software, something like that.
So a flight from conversation can really matter because it can
compromise
our capacity for self-reflection.
And in fact, if you speak to people who are on long-term warfarin, it is a serious
compromise
to your quality of life, and even worse, it inevitably foreshortens your life.
Empathizing with someone you profoundly disagree with does not suddenly
compromise
your own deeply held beliefs and endorse theirs.
The vast majority of people, they pick and choose, they see
compromise
and they change over time when they hear a better argument or a worse argument.
But when you get specific, when you actually ask about the actual taxing and spending issues under consideration, people are remarkably centrist, they're remarkably open to
compromise.
In 1913, we had this ugly battle over the Federal Reserve, when it was created, with vicious, angry arguments over how it would be constituted, and a general agreement that the way it was constituted was the worst possible compromise, a
compromise
guaranteed to destroy this valuable thing, this dollar, but then everyone agreeing, okay, so long as we're on the gold standard, it should be okay.
And this long-term fiscal picture that we're in right now, I think what is most maddening about it is, if Congress were simply able to show not that they agree with each other, not that they're able to come up with the best possible compromise, but that they are able to just begin the process towards compromise, we all instantly are better off.
And so just the act of
compromise
itself, and sustained, real compromise, would give us even more time, would allow both sides even longer to spread out the pain and reach even more
compromise
down the road.
I feel like my job to make this happen is to help foster the things that seem to lead to compromise, to not talk about this in those vague and scary terms that do polarize us, but to just talk about it like what it is, not an existential crisis, not some battle between two fundamentally different religious views, but a math problem, a really solvable math problem, one where we're not all going to get what we want and one where, you know, there's going to be a little pain to spread around.
If you are a researcher, I hold you to a higher standard of moral conscience, to remain ethical in your research, and not
compromise
human welfare in your search for answers.
Then he was kind of troubled, and asked me for a
compromise.
But I told him no, I'm sorry,
compromise
in colors is gray, and we have enough gray to last us a lifetime.
In fact, one of the most important lessons from this comparison is that you don't have to
compromise
equity to achieve excellence.
I think those are deforming effects, and worst of all, it seems to prevent things like negotiation or deliberation or
compromise
or collaboration.
In an ideological conflict, there can be no truce, no draw, no compromise, only victory or defeat.
So every time you pulled on a t-shirt, or switched the light on, or went to the bathroom, or sometimes all three together, you were reminded sustainability was about
compromise.
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