Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, just to be safe. She's not saying that supplements are bad, or that there's any danger in giving kids their Flintstone vitamins. Her concern is that too many people are taking huge doses without much evidence that they will do any good and without considering the harm they might cause. "If you have reason to believe that you are shortchanged on a single nutrient, you have to know what the risks are," she says. "That may require a consultation with a professional nutritionist, not a conversation with your neighbor, a chiropractor or a health-food-store employee...
Nancy R. Nangeroni, an MIT graduate and Cambridge resident who is "not content to be simply [male or female]", says there is no harm in "allowing people to self-determine gender", despite the American Psychiatric Association (APA) classification of transsexualism as a "sexual deviation...
...employee of Cambridge Emergency Communications reported receiving as many as 16 phone calls from unknown parties who threatened to do bodily harm to those involved in the Louise Woodward trial...
...broke up Ma Bell in '84. Gates understands that the browser is the soul of the new machine that will carry us all into the 21st century, and he won't back down. "The point of antitrust law," Myhrvold argues, "is to say, 'Is there a situation that will harm consumers' interests?' And we feel very strongly that, no, this doesn't harm consumers." The size and complexity of operating systems grow over time, he says, as powerful new features are added. "That was true long before Microsoft was a corporation." The company has made billions by steadily improving...
...think the proposal was especially meaningful or far-reaching. "A Band-Aid on a problem that requires a tourniquet," Robert Musil, executive director of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, called it. And many conservative politicians and business leaders ridiculed Clinton's claims that his plan will cause no harm to the economy. It will, insists Republican Representative Bill Paxon of New York, "wind up costing the taxpayers billions of dollars and millions of jobs...