Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force and violence. For example, one Harvard CO wrote on his Form 150: "I feel that the use of force is not necessarily destructive of human worth or human capacities. ... Criminals, rioting mobs, mentally disturbed persons, and uncontrollable children, to cite a few examples, must be restrained lest they harm themselves and society.... It is the use of violence to which I object. Unlike the force employed by police, the violence employed by a state waging war is not used with the consent, or for the welfare, of those against whom it is directed; it does not distinguish between guilty...
Radioisotopes are now commonly introduced into the body's various systems to allow doctors to trace functions and spot malfunctions with sensitive scanners. But radioactivity is the peril as well as the point of using the particles, reported Quinn, since too much of it during the testing can harm the patient. The ideal, therefore, is to find a radioactive substance with a short half-life that will decay quickly after passing on the information doctors need. The problem is that the unstable substances live so briefly they must be manufactured as short a time as possible before their...
...church officials involved in the day-to-day handling of ecclesiastical funds, the issue appears far more complex. Many strongly suspect that grandstand gestures of protest may in the end do more harm than good. Says Mrs. Porter Brown, general secretary of the Methodist Church's Board of Missions, which spends $16.6 million a year to support churches abroad, including some in South Africa: "If we take our money out of First National City, whom do we give it to? Barclays? Lloyd's? They are involved in South Africa just as much as First National City...
...investigation, a Cuyahoga County, Ohio, grand jury dismissed Bailey's claim as having "no basis in truth or fact" and rebuked him for raising it. Though Bailey won a new trial for Sheppard by claiming prejudicial press coverage, the publicity in the Coppolino case clearly did not harm the defendant. Superior Court Judge Elvin Simmill, in fact, complimented reporters on their performance...
Undergraduate courses in Chemistry are to most students an unhappy compromise which satisfies neither concentrators for non-concentrators. The Chemistry Department has begun exploring curriculum changes to remedy the problem, but some of the proposals voiced may do more harm than good...