Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Organizations in Cambridge and neighboringcities first raised opposition to the $400 millionproject two years go, saying it would be both aneyesore and a detriment to the environment.Activists contended that air pollution and trafficvolume would skyrocket...
...comes to the denial of the Rev. Gomes' right to the same courtesies and honors as anyone else, I take great offense. I fear anyone who discerns a difference between people, determines that one group is "less worthy" than another, and then has the power to act to the detriment of the "less worthy" group. So the Concerned Christians at Harvard can have their opinions, but don't expect to be welcomed into my dining hall when you come to campaign for power to act. Whatever happened to "love the neighbor as thyself," anyway? Beth Raina Trilling...
...concerned that many might read the magazine's supposedly scholarly articles with credulity. The authors' manipulation of statistics and citations, in addition to their purported display of charity, could thereby misinform the public-at-large as well as impel anyone with homosexual desires to his or her emotional detriment...
...extent of Jesuit influence exacerbated past papal mistrust, especially during the 1970s, when the order appeared to many to take a pronounced leftward tilt. Tensions broke into the open when Pope Paul VI decided that too many of the members were involved in secular matters, including politics, to the detriment of their priesthood. Whenever a papal teaching was questioned, Jesuits always seemed to be in the thick of things, whether the topic was birth control, homosexuality or female priests. Soon after he became Pope, John Paul picked up Paul's refrain, denouncing the order's "regrettable shortcomings...
...fact that they meet in foreign countries makes them immune from our law, but it should not make them immune from our contempt. And American soldiers should not die in the desert defending the oil kingdoms' right to flout the basic rules of free enterprise, to our enormous detriment...