Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even those who show homophobic tendencies usually mean no harm. "He played like a fag," a basketball player says. "Did you know he's openly homosexual? Print that," a lacrosse player jokes. The statements are offensive, but not intentionally...
According to William Woody, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the accident was preceded by a series of commands that put the vessel a mile out of the shipping lanes and into harm's way. Cousins and finally Hazelwood, who had returned to the bridge, issued contradictory orders. Shortly after midnight, the tanker impaled itself on Bligh Reef, its hull torn by gashes, some thought to be 15 ft. wide. At least 240,000 bbl. of oil, equal to 10.1 million gal., poured out of the wounds...
...much of this medical waste really needs tobe disposed of in this expensive way? How much ofhospital waste could really do any harm?" saidMartin S. Bander of Massachusetts General, one ofHarvard's main teaching hospitals. "The samestandards should be applied to all sources of allmedical waste, such as doctor's offices andsurgery centers, which are not now required topack it in the same safe manner as hospitals...
...costly arms race--a war of economic attrition which the weaker Soviet economy has been unable to win--leading to the Gorbachev "reforms." The political and economic costs of the arms race and Soviet expansionism--and the realization that these policies cannot be continued with out doing great harm to the Soviet economy and regime--are what ultimately lie behind recent Russian reforms...
...forcing the issue now will do no good and could do harm by giving Shamir an excuse to dig in his heels. Likud has consolidated its strength in recent local elections, so it would be folly to peg American diplomacy to the more pliable policies of the weakened Labor Party...