Word: harmful
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...Dartboard’s sorry; she just couldn’t possibly study for her Bio midterm without some comfort food in front of her. Call it what you will, but a pack of gummy bears, some chocolate chip cookies and a bottle of coke never did a student harm when cramming long hours at a time...
Secondly, while the referendum may have been passed by a majority of those who voted, the harm that this increase is likely to have on those who did not support it is likely to far outweigh the benefits to those who did support it. From conversations that I have had, it is clear that many students are not themselves largely responsible for paying their term bills (due to parents covering the costs and so on). For them there is no downside to increasing the fee, as the increase may yield marginal benefits to them. Therefore, they have every incentive...
...created an industry. The '90s were a decade when the silicon chip met the "peace dividend"--billions saved by the ending of the cold war--and gave us an economic boom. Clinton deserves credit for not getting in the way. He fulfilled the economic Hippocratic oath: first do no harm. Not screwing up a boom going on around you, however, is not the same as job creation...
...before another is fired into multiplexes and scatters the competition. Troy opens in roughly 3,500 locations on May 14, the week after Van Helsing and a week before Shrek 2. If it doesn't open huge or if it dies soon after it opens, it could do untold harm to the careers of Petersen, Pitt and numerous Warner Bros. executives. "On something this big, it'll come down on me and everyone else they're selling it on," says Pitt. "There are people keeping close score, believe me. I just hope they also pay attention to the story...
...upward, since 60% of Americans, smokers and nonsmokers, show biological effects of tobacco-smoke exposure. Shepard did offer some reassurance for city dwellers who have to pass through nicotine clouds every time they enter and leave an office building. Exposure for a few seconds probably doesn't do much harm, he says, because the toxins in cigarette smoke are quickly diluted in outside air. --With reporting by A. Chris Gajilan...