Word: detriment
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...unemployment rate has been running above the national average -- over 11% in some depressed industrial areas of the state. On the stump, Arlen Specter, a relatively moderate class of '80 member, rarely mentions Reagan and never discusses Republican control of the Senate. "That argument works more to my detriment than to my benefit," says...
...began with the death of much-beloved King George VI and ended with a crisis of leadership surrounding the eventual abdication of the playboy Prince of Wales Edward VII. France was paralyzed by a kind of national paranoic fear that money-grubbing businessmen were controlling the country to the detriment of the average working class and petit bourgeois citizen...
...well as a good thing. When it allows dissenters to peaceably acquiece to the decision of the majority, it is a good thing. When it keeps voters away from the polls or prevents them from taking action against flaws in the system, it is obviously a detriment. Unfortunately, America is subject to both kinds of apathy. While there are probably fewer terrorist groups per capita than in most other countries, there are also lower voter turnouts at elections...
Pressed on his comments later, Bush did not retreat. He felt "very, very strongly that a strong domestic oil industry is in the vital national-security interest of the U.S.," he reiterated in Bahrain. "Whether it proves to be a detriment politically, I simply couldn't care less...
Company officials must next overcome a powerful impulse to run for cover from the press and the public. "Executives often bury their heads in the sand and refuse to communicate. But adopting a bunker mentality is always to their own detriment," says Fink. Moreover, he continues, "many companies go astray by lying." When that happens, the public loses faith in the firm, and its products, which may never be restored...