Word: detriment
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...seemed unlikely that Ecuador could stop the advance. Unless theoretical Good Neighbors of both did something about it fast, the bigger of these Bad Neighbors might solve the boundary dispute by swallowing the smaller fellow next door. And that might start grabbing all over South America, to the detriment of hemisphere solidarity...
...Ickes once said: "The beet sugar industry has no justification for existence. It is kept alive by artificial means and is a detriment to itself and the country...
...essential humor of Thorne Smith's basic idea lies in its originality. This element is necessarily lost in the sequel and, since no new angle is added, the spark is gone. In fact, the replacement of Cary Grant by a fox terrier named Atlas is even a slight detriment. Billie Burke, as Mrs. Topper, runs away with all the good lines and leaves the rest to the cast to struggle with a script which is nowhere near as good as that of the first Topper picture. The superb comedy of Roland Young and Franklin Pangborn, however, overcomes the discrepancies...
Harvard, the Vagabond reflected belligerently, as he gambolled down the steps of Widener, had no soul. Vag was in one of those devil-may-care moods which always scize him, to the detriment of his marks and the anguish of his tutor, just before examinations...
...directors' ears, "setting one man against another." Everything was set for open battle when Mr. Catchings saw that a majority of directors sided with Coster, led by representatives of the banking interests that had helped him finance the company. Rather than start a public row to the detriment of the company's reputation, Mr. Catchings issued a report and resigned. Said he last week: "I told them, but they wouldn't accept it, that Mr. Coster's reports were tricked and misleading...