Word: detrimental
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...imperative that the council start soon. They should proactively piece together a vision for undergraduate education that makes student concerns a priority—instead of allowing Harvard to remain an impersonal research institution which has a tendency to err on the side of administrative convenience to the detriment of educational benefit...
...Prioritizing academics to the detriment of other facets of student life can seriously hurt students who feel they must fulfill academic goals and ignore other concerns, Quinn says...
...ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE PROCESS? They've hurt it. This Administration has abandoned what has been in the past a bipartisan commitment to a relatively balanced position in trying to find peace. It's been an ostentatious alliance between the White House and the Sharon government, I think to the detriment of our nation's image and to the detriment of an eventual peace agreement...
During their campaign, Blickstead and Mahan say they have shown similar attention to detail—often to the detriment of their sleep schedule...
MBTA officials argue that the provisions are necessary to improve communication; music from street performers often obscures announcements from trains, they say, to the detriment of waiting commuters. And yet the MBTA could alleviate communication issues in a more obvious way: Announcements from shoddy, scruffy broadcast system are often difficult to hear in stations without musical performers—the MBTA should first seek to improve the quality of its announcement system before blaming musicians for communication problems...