Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy seemed to feel that there was no great harm in the bloating national debt. "The ability of the nation to service the federal debt rests on the income of its citizens, whose taxes must pay the interest. Total federal interest payments as a fraction of the national income have fallen from 2.8% in 1946 to 2.1% last year. The gross debt itself as a proportion of our G.N.P. has also fallen steadily-from 123% in 1946 to 55% last year. Under the budgetary changes scheduled this year and next, these ratios will continue their decline...
...temporarily in the majority cannot avoid their own ultimate bankruptcy. They may . . . bluster noisily, but their majority is only a fictitious, superficial phenomenon. We will never submit to the dictates of any anti-Marxist-Leninist bludgeon. Unreasonable abuse is entirely useless; curses have not done us the least harm...
Still more confusing are the crossovers between species. Millions of monkeys carry a virus which apparently does them no harm. But this virus, known as SV-40, may cause tumors if injected into hamsters. Viruses found in human tissues and in some rat cancers make hamsters bear deformed young with features resembling human mongolism. One virus that normally causes only grippe in man will cause cancer in hamsters...
Much better, say the Beltsville entomologists, is the sneakier scheme of using synthetic sex lure to trick the males into crawling over a chemical that will sterilize them but do them no harm in any other way. They will mate normally with normal females whenever they get the opportunity...
...Well you might have read that the leftist chemist testified that U.S. bomb tests caused genetic harm to present and future generations; or, the Nobel-Prize winning scientist testified that Soviet bomb tests do the same thing. It depends, of course...