Word: harmfulness
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...A.B.A. House of Delegates, meeting in Chicago, voted 243 to 184 in favor of a new rule that would allow lawyers to disclose client secrets to prevent "reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm." The old rules already allowed lawyers to speak out when a client was imminently going to commit a crime. But the new policy lets lawyers speak out even when the potential for harm is not immediate and when the act is not criminal...
...Clinton can be heard harping on the trade-offs between Bush?s tax cuts and his Pentagon budget, and when a Clinton - any Clinton - and a Daschle start threatening to pick up votes on a military issue, Bush knows it?s time to pull his political neck out of harm...
...spent millions on a public-relations and lobbying campaign to nix the plan, and CEO Jack Welch even went to Whitman personally. The company insisted Tuesday that the dredging operation - the largest in U.S. history - would "do more harm than good," stirring up PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, now safely buried under layers of sediment on the river bottom, and besides that would visit "decades of disruption" on area residents. And yet Whitman remained unmoved...
...reaction to the ANAD request," a company spokesperson said Tuesday. She went on to explain the "long-standing terms of service" at Yahoo!, and outlined the consequences for anyone who violates them (which pro-anorexic sites certainly seem to do). "Content with the sole purpose of creating harm or inciting hate is brought to our attention, we evaluate it, and in extreme cases, remove it, as that is a violation of our terms of service...
...Russian leader has been saying no, no, no. He probably cares less about the sanctity of the ABM treaty than the harm its demise might do to Russia's standing in the world and his image at home. Analysts in most capitals, including Moscow, think he's bargaining for everything he can get before he says O.K. He needs the veneer of equal dialogue, and the sweeteners could be costly--no NATO expansion; keeping quiet as Russia continues economic ties to Iraq and Iran...