Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February 25: Jackson flies to Chicago to attend a Nation of Islam meeting. Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, referring to the "hymie" incident, warns Jackson's opponents. "If you harm this brother, I warn you in the name of Allah, this will be the last one you harm...
...budget gap is not an economic or technical problem. It is a political problem. Voters, being human, want more benefits and fewer taxes, and politicians, being politicians, respond to the voters. Says the CBO's Penner: "All spending does some good for someone, and all taxes do some harm to someone. So there is never a good spending cut or tax increase in the eyes of the entire electorate...
...mismanagement and extravagance. It must be confessed that some rank-and-file party members and leading executives are prone to be generous at government expense. Such "philanthropists" dip their hands into the public pocket themselves and are indifferent to embezzlement of public property by others. They cause grave harm to Communist construction, of course, but they do not run the show, figuratively speaking. They are too few and far between to warrant judgment about Communists in general...
Finally, realizing that his stonewalling was doing more harm than good, Mondale's aides advised their candidate to cite some differences with labor. He mentioned his opposition to the B-1 bomber, the Clinch River breeder reactor and the weakening of clean air standards. The examples were "small potatoes," conceded an AFL official. "They're not going to quiet the howling beast." The clumsy handling of the issue was a rare stumble by Mondale's smoothly efficient machine, which is being publicly tested for the first time in Iowa this Monday and New Hampshire next Tuesday...
...cast--awash in a sea of metaphors. "Be like an ocean with no boat," the dying person is prodded at the beginning of the performance Twenty minutes later, the phraseology has varied little. "Even if you were cut into tiny pieces you cannot die again. Emptiness cannot harm emptiness...