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...questions that the Nixon-Brezhnev meeting is a necessary move in the strategy of détente. But there has long been an endemic suspicion that the superpowers might make a bilateral deal that would be to the detriment of Europeans-a suspicion that has been enhanced by Watergate and the danger that a seriously weakened President might try to recoup by concluding something spectacular. Last week Secretary of State Rogers departed from the text of his speech at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Copenhagen to reassure the Atlantic allies that Nixon would make no agreements with Brezhnev...
...answer further states that even if Fox's claims were legitimate, he forfeited these claims by divulging "to third persons confidential information acquired by him during the course of his employment with [the Coop], all to the great harm and detriment of [the Coop...
Impressed by the subsequent development of his computer, Professor Aiken said at a testimonial dinner given for him at Harvard in 1961, "I hope to God this will be used for the benefit of mankind and not for its detriment...
Internally, the Bureau is torn by conflict between its staff of streetworkers (the people who deal directly with the kids) and an administration that is undermining their programs and proposals. Many see the Bureau as either a waste of time, or an outright detriment to kids. Staff turnover has been high, and tangible accomplishments by the Bureau are almost impossible to find...
...degenerated into a pork barrel. Many farmers were paid year after year for continuing conservation practices that they were originally encouraged to start as a demonstration for their neighbors. Some REAP drainage projects destroyed wetlands needed by wildlife and subsidized the growing of potatoes in Idaho to the detriment of potato farmers in Maine. Former Agriculture Under Secretary John Schnittker voices the most telling criticism of the program: "REAP subsidizes farmers to do what they would do anyway. Most conservation practices are themselves profitable...