Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investor in an agency has the right to know the facts. The agency as the recipient of public funds has the duty to disclose fully to those who invest in its activities . . The predominant desire of the agencies too frequently is for self-aggrandizement and self-perpetuation to the detriment of overriding public interests. It does not take over 100,000 voluntary agencies ... to provide private health and welfare services...
...said Federal District Judge J. Cullen Ganey, were "a shocking indictment of a vast section of our economy." They were more than that. They showed clearly that the executives of a mighty industry, publicly devoted to the concept of competition, had privately conspired to rig prices to the detriment of their customers on a scale so vast that it embraced everything from the Tennessee Valley Authority to the private utilities that supply the nation's light and power...
This week-end's match will mark the first major road-trip before a varsity squash match for the five sophomores on the team, and the inexperience which so far this year has not been a detriment to the Crimson's success may well be more evident after the long plane ride to Ithaca...
...seat of Souvanna's government, under the guise of coming to negotiate; Souvanna's own Captain Kong Le marched out to oppose insurgent General Phoumi in the jungles along the great and languid Mekong River. And when Souvanna fancied that the U.S. was aiding Phoumi to his detriment, he himself applied for Russian aid. Phoumi's American-made 105-mm. howitzers resounded in the jungle and Russian Ilyushin-145 droned overhead bearing gasoline for Souvanna's forces...
...rumors that "cancer germs concealed in matches had been infiltrated into the country by a foreign power (you pick your teeth with a match and it's all over with you), or that, under the influence of cosmic rays, women were giving birth to girls (to the detriment of our army...