Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That is not the only thing that happened. In any system there may be people to whose disadvantage a certain policy is applied. But I refuse to admit that the policy of "separate development" was only to the detriment of the various ((nonwhite)) communities. There are members of these communities who achieved not only positions in their own communities but some of them became really rich...
...federal judge struck down the authority's new policy, ruling that it violated the beggars' right to free speech. But last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated the ban, ruling that far from being a form of speech, begging seems an "assault" and a "detriment" to the common good. That's bound to cheer many a subway user, but it leaves the panhandlers without much to be thankful...
...northern Wisconsin lakes. Sport fishermen, who are required to use less efficient fishing rods and are limited to three to five fish a day, claim that the Chippewa are harming tourism by depleting the walleye population. "It's 1% of the population exercising their rights to the detriment of 99%," charges Dean Crist, leader of a protest group...
...more than $30 million. The move brought cries of foul from other colleges. The increased money and TV exposure, they complained, will give Notre Dame even more of an advantage in national recruiting and will encourage other strong teams to pursue a go-it-alone policy, to the detriment of all college sports...
...reporter hates to lose a story, especially at the behest of a Communist diplomat who makes house calls. But journalists also have to be careful about a version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in physics: sometimes by observing -- and reporting -- a phenomenon, we alter it, perhaps to the detriment of people who have cooperated with us. If, as Lukanov feared, publishing a profile of him were to end a career that was supposedly so promising, then not only would I have burned my source but I would also have misinformed my readers. So I swallowed hard and sent a cable...