Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, undergraduates are faced with some tough choices--and in many cases, they choose to try and do everything anyway, usually to the detriment of their sleeping habits. In the past three months, 2851 undergraduates on the university payroll have earned more than a million dollars. By June, the number of students employed by Harvard will have increased to 3715. Many of those student also work on outside activities, but the leadership of several extracurriculars, especially the more time-consuming varieties, tend to have working students underrepresented...
...Pakistan. I would add that the involvement of the United States government in propping up the regime of General Zia ul-Maq only makes it more necessary to be clear about the independence of scholars. Too often an academic cover has been used to promote CIA operations to the detriment of all scholars...
...struggling for life in the political limelight. But this time, it is about to be abandoned by the individual who should be its most ardent supporter. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett has called for the redesigning of bilingual instruction in a move that would be to the extreme detriment of the public education system...
...board member Hugh A. Russell, who voted down the proposal, presented the majority view. "It is a detriment to the public good if we grant a variance we knew could not be held up in a court of law," the city council candidate said about the possibility of an appeal...
Hughes refrains from buying art seriously. "I don't think critics should collect because then they tend to find themselves in a net of obligations to artists and dealers that may be to the detriment of their own work," he says. "Besides, it is very restful, after a hard day in museums, to come home and look at a nice blank wall...