Word: harmfulness
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...their homes in the winter. Many Department of Labor programs were curtailed, including those that enforce workplace safety and train recently laid-off workers for new jobs. These cuts may free up money in the short term, but they will do so at a cost. They will cause great harm to poor Americans in the short term, erasing much of the progress made by the Clinton administration...
...either drugged or suffering from pre-existing medical conditions that made it hard to determine a cause of death. At TIME's request, Dr. Patrick Tchou, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, reviewed the few existing scientific studies on stun guns and concluded there is "some potential for causing harm, such as an irregular heartbeat" that could lead to death...
Those in the department do not feel the absence of their colleagues will harm the quality or breadth of course offerings...
...risk of dying may not seem like bad odds, but there's more to this ethical dilemma than a simple ratio. The first and most sacred rule of medicine is to do no harm. "For a normal healthy person, a mortality rate of 1% is hard to justify," says Dr. John Fung, chief of transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "If the rate stays at 1%, it's just not going to be accepted...
...Republicans believe this in part because they learned that lesson the hard way. The party's take-no-prisoners wing is still smarting a bit from 1998, when it did not realize until too late that its drive for Bill Clinton's scalp did as much if not more harm to their own party than it did to the President...