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Last year several concerts discussed by the council failed to materialize, but Ron Lee says that lack should not be a detriment to his campaign. "I think the fact we will probably have a concert this year shows it was not a matter of negligence, just the time and opportunity wasn't quite right...
Discrimination is not the only detriment of the admission policy. The policy also breeds hypocrisy...
...stock, more than 80% of his holdings. He is far from alone. Eleven months after last year's crash, most individual investors are avoiding stocks as if they were poison. Some Wall Street executives fear that many of these investors may be leaving the market for good, to the detriment of brokerage firms and future bull markets. Says Hardwick Simmons, vice chairman of Shearson Lehman Hutton: "The small investor is an endangered species...
...that included a commitment by each side not to "obtain unilateral advantage at the expense of the other." Leonid Brezhnev & Co. made a mockery of that agreement by pouring Cuban proxies into Angola and military advisers into Ethiopia. The Soviet Union has traditionally defined its own security to the detriment of everyone else's. The men in the Kremlin demonstrated over and over that they would not feel entirely secure until everyone else in the world felt entirely insecure...
Herron's concerns about the overburdening of minority professors to the detriment of their scholarship are echoed by minority faculty members in other departments...