Word: detract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Nasser came to power in 1952, he used to insist that any renewal of war with Israel would detract from his most important task, raising the standard of living of his people. "In Egypt today," he complained at the time, "a water buffalo is more valuable than a human being. I mean, it costs more to hire a water buffalo for a day's work than it does to hire a fellah." Today the same holds true, though the price has gone up for both a man's labor (58¢ a day) and a water buffalo's hire (69?...
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...wish to detract from anything that happens at M.I.T.," said Larry Beeferman, a fourth-year graduate student in the division. "We are concerned with organizing activities within the university and outside it to put some meat on the skeleton proposed by SACC [Science Action Coordinating Committee...
...certainly is an improvement. Granted that it's not complete, and there are always a number of errors in the schedules. But these shortcomings reflect only the natural limitations of any student calendar--and the general incompetence of the persons compiling it. They in no way detract from the new format...
...more than that. His biography would practically write the story of the civil rights movement. His loss to Mrs. Shirley Chisholm in New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant district came at the will of the Democratic machine which has a stranglehold on the ghetto. The election does not detract from his prestige and left no personal bitterness--only a few campaign anecdotes and a contempt for machine politics...