Word: harmfulness
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...FERC relenting? The argument against price caps is that they do infinitely more harm than good, as Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon discovered when they allowed government bureaucrats to clog the gears of a free market. Price caps, says Energy Secretary Spence Abraham, are merely a formula for "an increase in the scope, duration and frequency of blackouts...
...HMOs must be held accountable when they negligently cause harm to patients. Our proposal allows for unlimited economic damages for lost wages, future medical costs and other needs. However, we do propose limiting non-economic damages in order to keep health care costs from skyrocketing...
...most important PR boost in the Saudi's career. And the fact that his name is cited by way of explanation for the fact that the world's most powerful military has moved into defensive positions all over the Gulf certainly doesn't do his carefully cultivated image any harm...
...Europeans are more willing to take another look at proposals floated by the Clinton administration for trading emissions-rights and so on. But the question will be to what extent is Bush willing to back away from his vow that in addressing global warming nothing can be done to harm the U.S. economy. That struck people here as selfish and self-serving, but also wrongheaded - the Europeans believe that while taking steps towards cleaner and more efficient energy consumption may be more expensive in the short run, they'll result in long-term savings and will ultimately become essential...
...environmentalists had a cool response to Bush?s comments. "This is a big photo opportunity. It's designed to make Bush look like an environmentalist, when all he's shown is a propensity to harm America's wetlands," Jonathan Ullman, spokesman for the Sierra Club of South Florida told the Associated Press. And while the Bush White House is not likely to care much about the likes of Ullman, staffers are concerned that months of bad press from environmentalists could scar the President?s image in the public at large...