Word: harmfulness
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...Brad T. Ito, an MIT senior who takes credit for initially hanging the banners, said he thinks they do more good than harm...
...community works to prevent terrorism. Attorney General John Ashcroft has approached Congress with a number of proposals to expand police powers, some of which are clearly appropriate, others more questionable. But it is clear that steps must be taken—and soon—to protect Americans from harm...
...thought of this as I watched the airline executives come to Congress to ask for a massive infusion of cash, which they got Thursday ($5 billion in emergency cash and $10 billion in loan guarantees). They should get help for the unforeseen harm that's hit them. But this is a corporate CEO bailout as well. The airlines were in deep trouble before Sept. 11. US Airways was so rickety that its chairman had recently sought to save himself with a merger with United Airlines. This week, he announced that 11,000 employees would lose their jobs, without...
...care not to increase the power of individuals whose agendas may run fundamentally counter to that of the U.S. Soliciting information is one thing, but significant monetary rewards that might be used to equip, arm or strengthen human rights violators is quite another—and could very well harm the long-term national interest. The guerrillas whom the U.S. supported in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion have used their skills only for more violence; the terrorist group Hamas was once Israel’s ill-fated attempt to create a competitor to the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...Maybe they didn’t mean any harm, but using racial slurs are seeds of ignorance that we are now seeing manifested as hate crimes against people with brown skin,” he added...