Word: detrimental
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Among the mullahs inside Iran, the most powerful is Ayatullah Sharietmadari, a revered Islamic scholar who condemns violence but strongly opposes the Shah on constitutional and religious grounds (see box). Parliament, claims Sharietmadari, too often violates the precepts of Islamic law to the detriment of Shi'ite sensibilities. Gambling, prostitution and pornography are all viewed as typical manifestations of modernism. The Shah's widespread curtailment of civil liberties, freedom of the press and political assembly are looked upon as only further evidence of his determination to deprive the Shi'ites of their power and to transform the nation into...
...Philharmonic to succeed avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. Not everyone in New York was delighted. Boulez had been a cool, ascetic leader. Mehta, by comparison, had a reputation for more gloss than substance. There was the question of his repertoire, which stressed Tchaikovsky and Strauss to the detriment of the early classics. Finally there was his famous contretemps with the Philharmonic. In 1967 he enraged the New Yorkers by reportedly declaring that his own Los Angeles Philharmonic was better, that New York musicians were an ornery bunch, and that he wasn't interested in succeeding Leonard Bernstein...
...unions are an indispensable force for industrial democracy. No program to control inflation can succeed without the support of labor, which will not be forthcoming unless it has a public-spirited leadership. Unfortunately, if the unions follow their present policies, they can only decline further, to the country's detriment...
...dislocated, are clearly meant to be seen as emanations of the earth, concretions of place and appetite. On occasion her liking for the organic goes too far. She has a habit of incrusting the skin of the figures with artsy-craftsy fern patterns and other vegetable decor, to their detriment. But her references to an archaeological past are almost always successful. The biscuity surface of the sprawl ing bodies alludes, though not blatantly, to the plaster corpses of Pompeii, just as the division into parts refers to the cult of the antique fragment ? a hand here, a fragment...
...Adams senior who wished to remain unidentified thinks the recent association of Adams with homosexuality has been a major detriment to the House's popularity. The image, he said, is based on the immature reaction of freshmen to the open attitude with which homosexuality is viewed in Adams House. "You can call it liberalism or realism, but such tolerance certainly comes with maturity," the senior adds. Images, however, are often misleading, and stereotypes may destine a House, or a collection of Houses, to remain unpopular among deciding freshmen for many years to come...