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...investigation or suspicion. With the enrollment lists these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct detriment and danger...
...There were so many clothes, so much washing interrupting my painting," she recalls. "I was just trying to turn a detriment to my advantage." A little glue, a little canvas, a little lint -- in time she began to regard it as "so painterly." Still, there was the artist's dilemma: "What did I want it to say for me? I was looking for strong social commentary. I didn't want it to be a decorative thing. And then, of course! It could speak for what it was. The work became much more three dimensional...
...federal government has increased student aid only minimally over the past decade, and now the Reagan Administration is intent on slashing it. In addition, the composition of that aid has been changing to the detriment of the two-thirds of Harvard undergraduates who receive financial aid. For the last 10 years, grants at Harvard have grown at a slower rate than educational costs, so loans and employment have had to make up the difference...
...make a lot of money running road races," he said, "but it can be a detriment to your development as a runner. I don't want to run road races, because I'm not in the sport to make money. I'm in it for the love of running, and I hope to achieve at the highest level...
...support rent control because it benefits one group of citizens to the detriment of another: tenants versus landlords, or "deserving tenants" versus ordinary low income tenants. We support rent control because it is a consumer protection program, a regulation of a scarce public good whose consumption is a necessity rather than a luxury or a lifestyle choice. As is the case with other publically regulated, but private utilities--natural gas, electricity, telephones, auto liability insurance--rental housing is regulated in the general public interest to realize the maximum public good. The good is seen as the balance between residents' need...