Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic standard-bearer in 1984 is not to foreclose his bargaining position That means focusing on more than arms control issues--for if the nuclear dilemma is the question of our generation, it is not one that will be solved satisfactorily by allowing it to mesmerize politicians to the detriment of other American concerns...
...detriment, Margaret Mead and Samoa is concerned with the same debate about environment and heredity which has been raging for a century, and Freeman's leanings throughout the book are just as clear as Mead's. He paints Boas and Mead as not only convinced of the importance of culture, but as all but conspiring to produce anthropological evidence supporting their view. Boas, Freeman says, not only sent Mead off to Samoa to study adolescence, but "devised" her research so that it would produce the corrects results. Often, Freeman portrays Mead Mead as merely a mindless extension of Boas--something...
...Crimson played a slow, six-hour match at the busy Stow Acre Country Club, where it had posted a respectable 380 on Monday. "We had a confident attitude towards the course," said freshman Rick Nichols. "That worked to our detriment...
Captain Charles B. Johnson's remark "a lot of fuss over not that much of a deal" [Feb. 14] is accurate only in that he was doing his job by stopping Israeli tanks from crossing his position. Encounters like this are an extreme detriment to U.S-Israeli relations...
Harvard presents extraordinary opportunities to qualified students, and the offer of admission is a difficult one to turn down. Depending on one's attitude, the fact that the College has chosen to use this educational market dominance to the detriment of its students is either consistent with a pattern of valuing economic concerns over the welfare of the undergraduates, or a puzzling reversal of an interest in the long term welfare of the College and its students. In either case it is a policy which demands to be changed...