Called suboptimization, this is a trade-off that increases the advantages to one unit or function but decreases the advantages to another unit or function.
Well, legacy admissions is giving an advantage to someone who has an arbitrary privilege of their parent having attended the university to which they're applying.
He had thought that the fruit of many years' labor, disposed of to advantage, might procure him enough to live, in an economical way, for the rest of his life.
Years of research has started corroborating the idea that dyslexic people are prone to advantages, including high-level reasoning, problem-solving spatial processing, episodic memory, and creativity.
The energy released in the expansion of expectation can be used to advantage in your work, as well as in the natural construction of the expectations that always follow.
Like the employees of the private sector, civil servants are well aware of the material benefits that come with their position, and most are inclined to defend these advantages vigorously to the detriment of the taxpayers.