Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ending the Rumbles. Grillo argues that individual welfare organizations often do more harm than good in fighting blight; working independently of one another, they duplicate one another's efforts or, worse still, expend their energies in squabbles over welfare dollars. Grillo's solution is a master plan to coordinate the particular skills of each department and agency in a massive, sustained attack on Oakland's problems. "We've got to do everything at once,'' he says, "and in a coordinated...
...world for long. Reminded of his prophecy of last year that "there won't be a 1962," he alibied: "Perhaps I just slipped a digit. What is a year? At least when a writer makes a mistake, it doesn't do you any harm, but the politicians...
...lawyers were sure that peppery Lee Loevinger, chief of Justice's Antitrust Division, had initiated the new action in reprisal for G.E.'s refusal to sign a consent decree under which the company would bind itself not to charge "unreasonably low" prices that might tend to harm competitors. Another theory was that Loevinger was worried by the vagueness of the proposed consent decree, which might make it legally untenable...
...therefore not helping the U.S. by printing such one-sided material. On the contrary, you are doing definite harm...
...cautionary example. Venice, the most beautiful city in the world, is a crude sand castle, and the dolphin, the most beautiful of marine animals, is a mudfish. The people who conspire in this sort of thing are doubtless dutifully-minded toward the young, and can claim that no great harm is done-the child will not remember such books. But why protect the young from the beauty of Canaletto on Venice or Pliny on dolphins...