Word: detractions
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Deciding who is a viable presidential candidate, and therefore who should be able to participate in a nationally televised debate, is not an easy choice. No one wants a crackpot candidate who has no chance of winning the general election to detract from the debate and waste the public's time. However, by the same token, any candidate who does not have the opportunity to participate in the debates has virtually no chance to win an upset victory in the election...
...faces a problem. Where merit can be measured relatively objectively--such as by the quality of a musical performance--race-blind admissions can be a useful tool to remedy implicit prejudice. But where overall merit depends on a confluence of individual factors, deleting the consideration of race may detract from the big picture...
...attempt by the administration to force a co-ed cast would detract from this effect. Moreover, it would represent a dangerous attempt to legislate art and (even more insidiously) humor. Academic freedom is essential to the honest conduct of a university, and it matters just as much on the theatrical stage as it does in the lecture hall...
...placement. The ghost of Old Hamlet disappears into a "Pepsi One" sign, and the infamous brooding and melancholic speech "To be or not to be" is delivered in a Blockbuster video store in the "Action" section, next to the sign "Go Home Happy." Whether intentionally comic or not, they detract from the play's tension, sucking out any emotional involvement that might otherwise have existed...
...letter, Levy and Maull wrote that Harvard should not impose "moral" standards on outside firms and that such a move would increase costs and detract from the University's educational mission...