Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, Thai envisages "the Hong Kong type of activities," based upon "exporting products of light industries," as the key to South Vietnam's economic future. Such a plan, of course, would benefit cities like Saigon and Danang to the detriment of the countryside. That's okay with Thai, who wants to "reduce the economy's dependence on agriculture and Viet Cong control." He said he did not believe that military victories would be meaningless if Saigon could not command allegiance in captured territory...
Everywhere, Red China cynically exploits racism to the detriment not only of the Western powers, but also of the Russians, who are increasingly on the defensive in Asia. But racial feeling also works against China, for many Asians have a centuries-old fear of the Chinese and it is at least as strong as their anti-white prejudice. The greatest threat Peking holds over its Asian neighbors is its army-2,500,000 infantrymen, a 12-million-man militia-which could inundate the continent if all its subversive stratagems should fail. That is why Viet Nam is the ultimate test...
...intellect, in his instrument, and in his artistry. But in his first production I felt his mad scenes were not mad at all; now they are merely loony. And by choosing to play the madness for so many of its comic values, he has to his own detriment prevented the possibility of his Lear's rising to tragic or classic proportions...
...public funds, instability, demagogy, anarchy, lying, improvisation, mystification, threats, blackmail and uncertainty about tomorrow." In an aside to the Afro-Asian delegates, Boumedienne said the show would go on as planned but now it would not be "cynically exploited by one man for his personal ends to the detriment of the country's higher interests...
...should remember. And it is still not practised in many places. Even the Harvard Medical School, for example, requires women applicants, but not men, to take a psychological test. Rumblings are now being heard from Yale and Princeton, where the lack of this basic equality is seen as a detriment not only to potential woman students, but to the actual men students...