Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furcolo, too, has chosen the primose path on occasion, once calling for the A.D.A. to disband in his keynote speech at its 1953 annual dinner. But in terming the A.D.A. a detriment to the candidacy of liberal Democrats he was merely acting like a politician running for office in Massachusetts...
...Furcolo, too, was caught in a party fight recently, but the division turned out to be native only to a political off-year. Many liberal Democrats, nonetheless, still harbor resentment toward Furcolo for his conduct before a 1954 A.D.A. dinner when he told that organization to disband as a detriment to the candidacy of the Democrats it endorses...
...convertibility, it has not yet taken the final plunge for fear of upsetting the other European currencies. The Germans worry that if they free the Deutsche mark while other currencies are weak, so much trade would flow their way that it might torpedo the European Payments Union, to the detriment of all European traders outside West Germany. Belgium, Holland and Switzerland all have stable money and trade balances, could probably compete under the terms of free currency exchange. Italy, too, is moving ahead rapidly; the lira has been stabilized at 625 to the dollar, and, while Italy has a sizable...
Heavy exports of cotton at world prices may reduce U.S. raw-cotton supplies, but they will also boost foreign production of cheap finished textiles-to the detriment of competing U.S. manufacturers, who still pay U.S. prices. The Government's answer is still another program: textile exporters will get a 6.58?-per-lb. subsidy on cotton products made for export, will thus be able to cut prices to compete in world markets...
...startling thesis. Author J. C. Furnas (-And Sudden Death, Anatomy of Paradise) argues that all U.S. thinking about the Negro for the past century has been shaped directly or indirectly by one book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the play fashioned from it-to the Negroes' detriment...