Word: detrimental
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...other aspects of the airlines' economic life. As a Cornell University economics professor who was also chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission from 1974 to 1977, Kahn has spent much of his career criticizing federal and state government for shielding inefficient industries to the detriment of consumers, who must pay more. Fully aware of the criticisms his deregulation drive would bring, he says: "No businessman protected from competition ever believed that competition is anything but destructive...
...would like to see Pinochet replaced by a government formed by General Gustavo Leigh, commander of the Chilean Air Force, and Eduardo Frei, former president of Chile and a leader of the PDC, Moffitt says many people believe that Pinochet "is not an asset any longer--he's a detriment because he's done so much." Moffitt points especially to the crackdown on members of the PDC, who began in 1976 to openly criticize the Pinochet government for the ruin they say it is inflicting on the Chilean people. Though Leigh is a former member of Patria y Libertad...
...peaceful and well-run place. These days, however, civic affairs are, well, abnormal. The 27 members of the local fire department went on strike last month, and Circuit Judge William Caisley ordered them to go back to work on the grounds that their strike constituted "an immediate impediment and detriment to the health, safety and welfare of the people of Normal." The firemen adamantly refused. The determined judge thereupon began handing out jail sentences for contempt of court to 22 of them. Only the four members of the firemen's negotiating committee are actually in jail full time, however...
...publishing empire of international proportions. In each case, the company's financial viability rests on the sum profitability of its enterprises, not simply the relative success, failure, or intrinsic merit of the publication. The company naturally comes to view its publication in more profit-oriented terms, to the detriment of editorial standards. The extent to which commercial motives influence contents varies from publication to publication. A prime offender is Time, once devoted to politics and the arts, which over the years has reserved more and more space to articles on life-style, personalities, commercial glamour and sexual mores...
...military becomes more of a metaphor for Scorton's life than running was for the delinquent in Sillitoe's earlier book, sometimes to the detriment of Widower's Son. Sillitoe tries to convey the idea of a gunnery officer's precision-oriented life with the most heavy-handed, redundant descriptions in the book. The emotional emptiness of William's retreat into the army, however, is that he retains a nostalgia for his home town but always feels the needs to be "mobile," usually desires to go overseas where, he believes, a soldier belongs...