Word: detrimentally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying semester: public service, alcohol policy and randomization have hung as albatrosses around his neck. As Lewis' second semester begins, he would do well to keep in mind the wishes of his primary constituency--his students--more than he has [in the fall] semester, although not to the detriment of decisions he believes crucial to the sound future of the College. And he should soften the edges of his terse communiques, termed brusque and blunt by many who have had frequent contact with...
...disruptions to their lives. For instance, one argument held that changing the calendar would require professors to grade fall-term finals on Christmas Eve. But this problem could be solved by simply making grades due a week later. In short, calendar reform would benefit students with little long-term detriment to the faculty...
Other members of the council say Hyman has a definite bias, to the detriment of campus life issues...
...observations of petty society cruelties, especially Cecil and his cronies who know how to draw the line only after they have crossed it. Unlike Amendola, they act idle, bored, and in need of distraction. And Burren cuts through her scenes with the impatient airs of someone conniving to fools' detriment. She, too, is flighty but with panache and an ego entirely liberated from its conscience...
While "voters...view politics primarily as a means of choosing leaders and solving their problems," reporters cover the campaign as if it were an extended game, stressing themes rather than facts, devoting their space to strategy analysis rather than extended quotation. Such coverage works to the detriment of the political process because "when voters encounter game-centered stories, they behave more like spectators than participants in the election, responding, if at all, to the status of the race, not to what the candidates represent...