Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Characterizing the board as a "kind of trial by judges," she recounted how the CRR administrators had charged her friend with excessive involvement in extracurricular political activities, to the detriment of his academics, "even though he had straight...
...want to go down in a Jules Verne-submarine," they can demand, and before long they'll be on location, somewhere in the Atlantic, driving around bathyscapes in search of the ship "even God couldn't sink." Some of the submarines "implode" (burst apart at the seams to the detriment of their crews), but others survive to pump the hull of the 900-foot liner full of foam ("Gillette Foamy is rich and thick enough..."). A few dynamite charges shake the hull free of the bottom and then, glug, glug, glug, here she comes, surging to the surface where...
...which we could have a comparative advantage, when we lack read-justment programs to provide retraining and future employment for those working in declining industries, we are in deep trouble. A weak economy leads all segments of America to fight for their share of a declining pie to the detriment of civic morality, optimism and benevolence in which Americans once took pride. America did not profit from England's decline, and Japan will not profit from America's decline. It is in the interests of Japan and other allies to have a healthy foresighted American partner whose behavior...
Covert and clandestine practices by the intelligence agencies in their relationships with the academic community distort the rights and responsibilities of the academic community and thus undermine academic freedom to the detriment of society...
...withdrawal of troops, and, indeed, they repeatedly indicate that it will be slowed down by any U.S. escalation of military activity in the region. The same high ranking Soviet Embassy official, in a more recent discussion, expressed strong fears that the U.S. was becoming involved with China to the detriment of the Soviet Union. He pointed back to Vice President Mondale's visit to Peking in September and the recent visit of the U.S. Defense Secretary. From the Soviet perspective, there is an enormously strong fear of a U.S.-Chinese alliance which has become a fundamental element of Soviet policy...