Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard opposes the bill in its present form because it is "too broadly written," and will work to the detriment of students, Whitlock said yesterday...
...abortion is the termination of pregnancy to the detriment of the fetus, then what does it matter what is done to it before abortion?" Berman said. "It isn't sensitive and doesn't feel pain...
Hughes creates a real character, possibly to the detriment of some others in the play. The townspeople are given time to develop individual identities--they are much more than a mob--but often each is only a grotesque caricature, too easily contemptible. The point about these people, even as they stand up for solo absolution speeches--the I-take-no-responsibility echos of collective murder--is that they're supposed to be nice middleclass folks. Maybe the moral resonance of the play infects the actors with a louder evil. Anyway the only ones who can carry off the bourgeois ambivalence...
Another complaint of the militant students was that Japanese businessmen were exploiting the country and working in league with Indonesia's Chinese community-to the detriment of the Indonesian masses. To meet that problem, the government decreed that in the future, any foreigner who wishes to do business in the country must go into partnership with a pribumi, an indigenous Indonesian-not a local Chinese. At least 51 % of the shares in the venture must be owned by an Indonesian...
Other characters in the Watergate drama, most notably the President around whom the whole affair revolved, played major roles. Yet Nixon, to his own detriment, never took charge of the scandal, continually reacting to events rather than shaping them. The remarkable Senator Sam Ervin, who rose spectacularly as a national folk hero in chairing the historic Senate Watergate hearings, employed literary allusions and unabashed outrage to effectively belittle the many evasive and amoral Nixon men who came before...