Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jack Kemp, a conservative Republican who is a strong backer of the agency's move, said that withholding money was a way to expose China's "demonstrably bad practices." So far, experts do not believe that the action will seriously harm relations between the U.S. and China, which denies that its methods are coercive. But a bigger threat lies ahead. Unless it withdraws from China or persuades Peking to change its policies, the U.N. agency will not get another dime from the U.S. That would cut its budget by $46 million and curtail its population-control efforts...
...began, there was often a moment when people showed a tendency to laugh." But it becomes increasingly difficult to care about Alice and her confederates. They are looking for trouble, and the novel shows them stumbling erratically into it. The only question left hanging is whether they will harm innocent bystanders...
BACK IN MAY, a bunch of students held a peaceful sit-in at the headquarters of Harvard's governing boards. Some of these apartheid protesters were Law School students, and because these students didn't mean any harm, the Law School Administrative Board didn't see any reason to make a big deal out of the incident. In no time at all, the disciplinary body had quietly delivered official warnings to the ten law students involved in the protest...
...common factor in failed therapies is the "madness" of the therapists. Skewed treatments, he writes in a new book titled Madness and Cure (Newconcept Press; $36), can bring some measure of relief to the disturbed and often seem to effect a cure, but they can also end in "incalculable harm" to patients...
...fact, two Americans were improperly detained this time after their car became entangled in barbed wire. But they were released without harm when a Soviet officer arrived. After Weinberger spoke, other officials in Washington toned down his account. A senior American officer in West Germany told TIME, "It was not a hostile situation and involved rather reasonable behavior on both sides...