Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Geraldine Frankoski, director of the Aviation Consumer Action Program, points out what she considers to be a built-in conflict of interest at the FAA that works to the detriment of safety. By law, she notes, the FAA is responsible for fostering and promoting civil aviation, a mandate that includes safeguarding the financial health of airlines, "while also administering and regulating safety. They can't honestly do both...
...viewed as a solution to the fact of grade inflation but as a treatment which allows it to continue without causing further detriment," Damon said...
Virginia S. McAlester '65, a member of the board of Dallas' Harvard club, said she does not see Green's pending departure from the central administration as a detriment to the trip...
...this for the exam," (and if you don't you can promptly proceed to evacuate it from your mind) are not uncommon in a class where so much material has to be assimilated in a very narrow range of time, and for a letter grade which might prove a detriment to a model transcript. This competitive attitude is the basis of non-pre-med resentment towards pre-meds at large, and provides fodder for the stereotype that all premeds are taking the course not for its inherently interesting subject material but solely for its stepping one-to-med-school value...
...Harvard has been able to use the system to itsown advantage, often to the detriment of tenants,"says Turk, who is now co-chair of the CambridgeTenants Union...