Word: harm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Such experiences have persuaded Jarvis to keep computers out of his own company, Accelerated Business Forms, a 14-employee manufacturer of business documents. "If you've got any kind of repetitive operations, a computer is perfect," he says, "but if you handle custom orders, a computer does more harm than good...
...prevalence of other addictions--compulsive overeating, for example--is applied to this one, there could be as many as 15 million computer addicts. "The problem is far more common than people are willing to acknowledge in terms of loss of productivity or damage to the economy, as well as harm on a personal level," says Dr. Donald Black, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Black, having already studied pathological gamblers and compulsive shoppers, has begun a study of compulsive computer users, since observing that some of the people in his department were spending enormous...
...mild irritant to the nose and throat. However, O'Donoghue said the chemicalitself posed little harm to the students...
...books that mentioned heroes of socialist labor. Then she had to get them to open up. "I spent many hours in various kitchens of people," she says, "just talking and explaining what the series was about, what it was for, and literally convincing them that there was no harm in talking...
Some suggested that low voter turnout as a result of the White House controversy would do more electoral harm to local Democrats than to Republicans...