Word: harmful
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...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...
...instance, if someone is not immediately perceived as female in a women’s bathroom, people may scream “there’s a man in the women’s restroom.” People may call the police, or threaten and physically harm the person...
...rule for picking a vice-presidential running mate—like the rule for modern medicine—is first, do no harm, I’ve got the perfect choice for Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass.: Rep. Richard Gephardt...
...captors think that you are available to comply with their requests." Still, the unknown hostage-takers were apparently gratified by the sight of 5,000 people marching in Rome on Thursday. They released a statement on al-Jazeera Friday saying they were pleased with the march and would not harm the Italians. But they added a new condition for release: Italy must convince the Kurds to let go Iraqi prisoners. This is a new twist in the tactics of terror - going over the heads of enemy governments to negotiate directly with the people - and it adds another dimension...
...terrorists who must be eliminated to allow for political progress in Iraq, the United Nations - on whom the Coalition is now relying to produce a workable political formula for ending the occupation of Iraq - is seeing things quite differently. "The more the occupation is seen as taking steps that harm civilians and the population, the greater the ranks of the resistance grows," Annan said Wednesday. Rather than embracing the Coalition's view of a small group of thugs stopping a democratic transition, UN officials - and other diplomats - see the makings of a nationalist challenge to occupation, to which they...