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Benchmark 7D Human Society: Social Trade-Offs
Grades 6-8, page 166
There are trade-offs that each person must consider in making choices--about personal popularity, health, family relations, and education, for example--that often have life-long consequences.

Benchmark 7D Human Society: Social Trade-Offs
Grades 6-8, page 166
Trade-offs are not always between desirable possibilities. Sometimes social and personal trade-offs require accepting an unwanted outcome to avoid some other unwanted one.