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...military becomes more of a metaphor for Scorton's life than running was for the delinquent in Sillitoe's earlier book, sometimes to the detriment of Widower's Son. Sillitoe tries to convey the idea of a gunnery officer's precision-oriented life with the most heavy-handed, redundant descriptions in the book. The emotional emptiness of William's retreat into the army, however, is that he retains a nostalgia for his home town but always feels the needs to be "mobile," usually desires to go overseas where, he believes, a soldier belongs...
...jockey's run was aided greatly by poor track conditions resulting from heavy rain, which are a much greater detriment to horses than to human runners. With the possible advent of synthetic racing turf, this one vestige of hope for the jockey will also be lost...
...league actually cares about retaining the less wealthy owners they can initiate measures to redistribute income, such as increasing the gate share allotted to visiting teams. If teams profit from each other's success, they will be less likely to overstock their roster with talent to the detriment of other league franchises...
...church, whether regional or worldwide, should consult with other bishops before speaking on matters of faith and should only "on occasion" take a personal initiative. An ecclesiastical primate "respects and promotes Christian freedom" and "does not seek uniformity where diversity is legitimate or centralize administration to the detriment of local churches." The statement's main conclusion: to unite all Christians, primacy "needs to be realized at the universal level. The only see which makes any claim to universal primacy and which has exercised and still exercises [it] is the see of Rome...
...Ford or Nixon have evolved foreign policy to the exclusion of the people and to the exclusion of their representatives in Congress. There is also a general feeling that we have yielded too much and put too much of an emphasis on negotiations with the Soviet Union, to the detriment of our relationships with South America, Canada, Japan and the European nations. And, there is an issue with our on-again, off-again export policies on agricultural products...