Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need is more stories on the goodness of people. The press doesn't report neighbor helping neighbor. There's a great market to tell people that they're good. They hunger for that. The bottom line is that the press is both a blessing and a detriment to our system. It's a great guardian to be able to run to with abuses. I need it to protect my clients. A free society has to have a free press...
...perhaps most alarming of all, Ruckelshaus has shown a decided bias towards "risk-management," or the balancing of the harms of dangerous substances against their benefits to society. Although not inherently wrong--all substances possess at least some risk--Ruckelshaus has utilized this approach too broadly, to the detriment of harmful substance banning. This approach, while less confrontational, is still fundamentally identical to the previous method employed...
Although the presidents ostensibly now have control of their institutions' dealings with the NCAA, Bok contended that often it is the athletic directions and faculty representatives who control the university's actions-often to the detriment of the ideals his group is working...
Curiously, Rosch notes, today's pressures have created a breed of thrill seekers who, often to their own detriment, prefer excitement over tranquillity. Life in the fast lane becomes a dangerous habit for them. "Skydivers get hooked on the jump," he says, "executives purposely arrive at the airport at the last possible minute. People today have become addicted to their own adrenaline secretion...
...ability to teach. In fact, those professor who have committed time and energy to teaching and to their students often found themselves behind in the race to publish and to achieve academic renown. Not only is teaching not considered seriously in tenure decisions, devotion to teaching can be a detriment to one's professional aspirations...