Word: detract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dole's public demeanor is so folksy that it is jarring to hear him privately revert to his more acerbic Washington self. "People out there know I'm working," Dole snaps when asked if his Senate duties detract from his campaign. "They know Bush doesn't have to." Tired, Dole lets his affability slip. "Bush hasn't said word one since the market crashed," he says angrily. "He has nothing to worry about; he can just go out on Air Force Two, using dozens of federal employees, at a cost of millions . . ." Dole's voice trails off, his flare...
Kwitny's research is formidable--so formidable, in fact that details of specific incidents tend to detract from his central purpose. While The Crimes of Patriots succeeds as an account of a series of interesting events, the events are not well enough connected to form a broad indictment of the CIA. The sometimes deadening effect of detail is evident when Kwitny recounts the questioning of Geort...
Some professors say that the African course offerings detract from the focus of the department. Huggins agrees, "It is hard enough to deal with Afro-American subject matter than to have to address the quite dramatically different culture and lifestyle of Africa." Many professors and students agree that Harvard should offer more courses that deal strictly with Africa, to create an interdisciplinary concentration...
Such problems, however, do not detract from the main lessons to be learned from To Win a Nuclear War. First, there are always those in the upper echelons of the American government and military who, under certain circumstances, will recommend a pre-emptive strike against the Soviet Union. There will always be some who belive, as does Richard Pipes, that "there is no alternative to war with the Soviet Union if the Russians do not abondon communism...
...points out, urged Arco to give $1 million to MOCA as well as $3.6 million to LACMA. And in any case, LACMA's master plan for expansion was mostly drawn up before the 1980 announcement of MOCA's founding. "The record has already proved that we haven't detracted from each other in the search for funds," says Powell. Few doubt that Los Angeles can manage to support two museums of modern and contemporary art, and Powell dismisses the idea that LACMA and MOCA will end up cutting each other's throats. "Will the Met's new wing of modern...