Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reservation was highballed through the Senate by Texas' Tom Connally in 1946. The following year the A.B.A. resoundingly urged its repeal on grounds that the Connally Reservation, rather than protecting the U.S.. would cripple the workings of the World Court to the eventual detriment of U.S. interests. A bipartisan campaign to repeal the Connally Reservation has won the backing of President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Herter, Attorney General William Rogers, Democratic Senators Hubert Humphrey, J. William Fulbright and John Kennedy. It may pass the Senate next year. Hoping to influence the Senate's decision...
...basic thesis is that white collar crime is largely caused by corporate neglect of employees' needs and morale and by poor management in general. The growing decentralization of U.S. business, he argues, has left too many top executives concerned only with profit-and-loss figures to the detriment of employee relations. Jaspan acknowledges that many thefts are hard to eliminate because of employees' money difficulties or personality problems (e.g., the unattractive sales clerk who stole for a trip to Bermuda to find romance). But he also points to the need for management to pay higher wages in some...