Word: harmfulness
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...harm done, either way: Putin got the ring - and properly turned it over to the state depository for gifts, according to his staff. Kraft made the ring a gift to Putin to demonstrate his respect - and, one hopes, his intention to invest in Russia to his and Russia's mutual profit. However, the morning after this ring-giving, I heard a remake of the 30 year-old Brezhnev joke: Putin, Bush and Chirac meet at a party. Bush shows off his steel ring, inscribed with: "To our leader from the GOP." Chirac sports a silver band, inscribed with the words...
...budget, which has grown by an average of 8% since 1981, and could possibly endanger the President's effort to rebuild the nation's defenses. Because certain previously signed weapons contracts are protected from the Gramm-Rudman cuts, the burden will fall precisely where it will do the most harm to the military's readiness to fight: funds for operations, manpower, maintenance, training and supplies. Warns House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, with perhaps a touch of hyperbole: "What you're seeing is a defense budget going down as fast as it went up, with double-digit negative growth...
...quickly denied that it had anything to do with last week's airport assaults. Arafat in November denounced terrorist activities outside Israeli-occupied territory. But in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin claimed that the newest attacks showed that "the Palestinian terrorist organizations are trying to reach us and harm us wherever they can." Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesman Avi Pazner warned that "Israel will continue its struggle against terrorism in every place and at any time that it sees...
...ungainly craft as a "covered wagon." More than half a century later, long after the carrier became the capital ship of the U.S. Navy, the doubters and true believers are still trading salvos in an engagement that has only heated up since ships of the Sixth Fleet sailed into harm's way in the Gulf of Sidra...
...shown that people who know they are at risk have a high rate of depression and behavior disorders, and that 25% of those who are diagnosed with early symptoms of the disease attempt suicide. Says Brandt: "We'll stop doing the test if we see we're doing more harm than good...