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Usenet Posted 22 years ago
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A word to replace "pros and cons"

Hello,
I lost a "single word" which means "pros and cons", can anyone help? With thanks
Lamb
  

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[nq:1]Hello, I lost a "single word" which means "pros and cons", can anyone help? With thanks Lamb[/nq] alternatives?

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[nq:1]Hello, I lost a "single word" which means "pros and cons", can anyone help? With thanks Lamb[/nq]
alternatives?
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[nq:1]Hello, I lost a "single word" which means "pros and cons", can anyone help?[/nq]
Ramifications
Consequences
Effects
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David
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[nq:1]Hello, I lost a "single word" which means "pros and cons", can anyone help? With thanks[/nq]
Where did you see it last?
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yes, but a single word, I came across it, but lost it now. lamb
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"¢~¡¸lam¢~¡¸" schrieb:
[nq:1]yes, but a single word, I came across it, but lost it now.[/nq]
"issues" - as in
"debate the issues involved with closing the inner city to traffic"

"sides of an issue" - "there are many sides to this proposal"

Michael

Still an attentive ear he lent Her speech hath caused this pain But could not fathom what she meant Easier I coun
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[nq:1]"¢~¡¸lam¢~¡¸" schrieb:[/nq]
[nq:2]yes, but a single word, I came across it, but lost it now.[/nq]
[nq:1]"issues" - as in "debate the issues involved with closing the inner city to traffic"[/nq]
Debate the results of closing the road.
Any way of avoiding the overworked word 'issues' would be just fine.
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[nq:1]Hello, I lost a "single word" which means "pros and cons", can anyone help? With thanks[/nq]
Merits?

Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van)
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[nq:1]On 12 Jan 2005, ¢~¡¸lam¢~¡¸ wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]Hello, I lost a "single word" which means "pros and cons", can anyone help? With thanks[/nq]
[nq:1]Merits?[/nq]
I had supposed that perhaps there was no such word, but Harvey's "merits" conveys the "for and against" sense perfectly. If this wasn't the word mislaid by the OQ, it should have been.
Alan Jones