Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people see Silber in such a charitable light. No one denies that he is brilliant and enormously articulate, but many believe he is using his talents to the detriment of Boston University. For example, his critics say his abrasiveness and intransigence in labor negotiations were a major stimulus for union activity at B.U., which has had three strikes within the last year...
...need hardly add that a humanist like myself does not consider history a science but an art and views the obsession with theory to the detriment of facts as an attack on true history by outsiders from the scientific camp. And I will leave out of consideration the fact that most students who major in the humanities are not actually required to study any history...
...shifting American priorities in the Middle East. Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan warned in an interview that the Carter Administration was undertaking a review of strategy toward the Palestinians that amounted to not just an erosion but a shift in U.S. policy toward Israel, to Israel's detriment. It was a result, he said, of "American concern about economic and energy problems, concerns about quantities of oil and prices...
...physical gags, comic facial expressions and amusing dialogue. Despite the risk of reducing his popularity with movie fans, Allen courageously broke with this former concept of film comedy and revived the style exemplied by the best works of Chaplin and Keaton which, at times, emphasized aesthetic considerations to the detriment of box-office success. In Manhattan Allen demonstrates his growth from entertaining performer to genuine film auteur, yet maintaining his bond with millions of movie-goers. Contrary to all expectations, current reports confirm that Manhattan is booming at the box-office throughout the country, testifying that Allen has resolved what...
...then by others, it seems to me no reason to expand the assets and the wealth of the South African economy by investing now in view of the serious risks. Conditions will deteriorate in that country in the very near future, and those assets will be used to the detriment, rather than the benefit, of black South Africans...