Word: harmful
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...here serious harm, or the potential for serious harm, has come to any person as a result of consumption of alcohol or drugs at an event held, sponsored, organized or supported by a student group...and the individual or individuals directly responsible are not identified, the host or hosts of the event will be held personally responsible. If the hosts are also not identified, the officers of the organization will be held personally responsible,” the report reads...
...Committee recommends that, for the first time, the officers of student groups—whether or not those student groups are recognized by the administration—will be held “personally responsible” for any incident “where serious harm, or the potential for serious harm, has come to any person as a result of consumption of alcohol or drugs,” at an event hosted by their organization. In other words, if a student makes a late-night visit to the Stillman Infirmary with a stopover at a final club basement...
...status quo isn’t perfect, but it also is not that bad, while the harm of futile finance reforms is clear and significant: It protects incumbents by dramatically raising the barriers to entry. Officeholders have significant advantages over challengers, such as name recognition and an established campaign team. In many cases, the best way to overcome these advantages is with money. But, because of campaign finance limitations, the only people who have the money to topple an incumbent are self-financed multi-millionaire challengers like New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman Sachs...
...plot three times from the perspective of different characters, and then chooses to leave things in the stylistically most awkward of places: the defensive hands of the bored reader. Constance Barton is haunted by the fear of death through childbirth, pursued by visions of ghosts and demons coming to harm her 4-year-old daughter, Angelica. Blaming her husband’s malignant intentions, she turns to the advice of a neighborhood spiritualist. The ghost story is told first from the perspective of Constance, then of spiritualist (and proto-feminist) Anne Montague, then of Joseph Barton, father and husband...
...Women's rights groups assert that, as it is, Polish women are unable to exercise their right for an abortion even when they qualify for it under the existing strict law. Speaking at a pro-choice rally Wednesday, Tysiac said the existing abortion rules legitimize injustice and harm the poor. "When one has money, she can easily get an abortion illegally. But what about people like me? Nobody cares," said Tysiac. Unsanctioned abortions may number 80,000 to 200,000 annually, according to estimates by women's rights groups. Only about a hundred abortions - within the letter...