Word: harmfulness
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...Since the hourly charge is less than 50 cents at the priciest Shanghai outlets, city dwellers vow to keep surfing. "Coming to an Internet bar is cheaper than karaoke or a pub or a disco," says Zhang Guoming, a 34-year-old cybercaf? owner in Shanghai. "There's less harm in it than going elsewhere. Why are they trying to close us down...
...terrorism is a curse that spills over national borders. Similarly, Washington is entitled to say - as Bush did during last week's G-8 summit in Canada - Palestine won't get American financial aid if it does not crack down on corruption. For that matter, there is no harm in pointing out that market economics will make Palestine more prosperous. But if the Palestinians decide, in their foolishness, to nationalize the ownership of every olive grove in the West Bank, why should anyone else care? Why should that be a ground for withholding recognition of a Palestinian state...
...communism, President Eisenhower urged Congress to add the words under God to the oath to reaffirm "the transcendence of religious faith in America?s heritage and future." Now faced with a war of uncertain definition and length, the country has once again embraced the pledge as a talisman against harm...
...seemed like nothing could harm him—a real physical specimen...
...edits Troussier's monologues so the coach doesn't "appear as if he is uneducated. Like the other day, he started talking about the players being like Mount Fuji, a volcano about to erupt or something ... the metaphor made no sense. So I just left that part out." No harm, no foul. "If I were President Bush's interpreter and I was doing this, it would be catastrophic," Dabadie says, "but this is sports. Pfft." Now that Japan is out of the Cup, Dabadie is considering a career in showbiz. He'll make a fine body double...