Word: detrimentally
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...billions of dollars) NATO will provide to modernize their armies. The nations' defense ministries will then spend this money buying arms from American and other western defense firms. Is it likely the American defense industry would try to influence American foreign policy for its own benefit, to the detriment of the interests of the American people...
That generosity has paid great dividends, oftento the detriment of traditionally more prestigiousschools--like Chicago, Stanford and Harvard--fromwhom NYU has plucked away prominent professors inrecent years...
James T.L. Grimmelmann '99, who left thecouncil but still serves on CUE and the StandingCommittee on the Core, says the lack ofaccountability Seton points to "has never workedto the detriment of the students...
Ellerth altered neither her taste in dress nor her sociability. And despite the alleged implied threats, she suffered no tangible detriment, but received promotions and pay raises. Nonetheless, she quit her job and sued Burlington for not sanctioning Slowik. Last summer, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals sympathized with Ellerth, essentially ruling that one does not need the quo in order to prove quid pro quo sexual harassment...
Ellerth's case should sound familiar. The spark to our present debate was Paula Jones's sexual harassment case against President Clinton. Jones made Ellerth's argument, that unwanted advances with no tangible detriment still constitute sexual harassment. Unfortunately for Jones, District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright disagreed with the Seventh Circuit: Judge Wright unceremoniously dismissed Jones's case earlier this month, holding that it was groundless without proof of detriment...