They need not be cost-effective in the conventional sense if they make a place more liveable or offer other vague benefits.America's streetcar revival is gobbling up funds that might otherwise go towards cheaper, nimbler forms of public transport, such as buses.
Several respondents evaded the question, while again referring to vague benefits, such as knowledge exchange.
Note that the outlined HR strategy was critically audited for two reasons: by the audit office because of its deficient input output equation (HR input: high quality, costly; HR output: less specified) and therefore vague organizational benefits, and by department heads because of the individual benefits of higher education and, again, more vague departmental benefits.
Most products had labels containing descriptions of vague medical benefits, like "for cardiovascular health," with a notation that the Food and Drug Administration had not evaluated these claims.
But to make us lifelong volunteers, we must be convinced that there will be a real payoff for each of us, not just a vague "high social benefit" (Economic Scene column, Feb. 7).
And the benefits this would entail -- funds, support, legitimacy -- are at least as useful, and more concrete, than the vague and uncertain benefits of social catharsis.
Moreover, he lowballs the public contributions to the project by excluding valuable tax breaks and is vague about what benefits the city and state would accrue.
During the presidential campaign, Mr. Bush was always vague about whether benefits would have to be cut in order to finance his privatization plan.
The consultation document repeats a mistake made in other reconfiguration controversies in being concrete about what will be closed or downgraded but vague about the benefits, notably around primary and community care.
Under Maryland's new law, the Bens and Jerrys of the future are free to compromise profits for the pursuit of vaguely defined "public benefit," which includes things like preserving the environment and improving human health.
