Word: harmfulness
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...antitobacco folk, aware of this bedrock belief, try to play up the harm smokers cause others. Thus the attorneys general seeking billions of dollars in damages from the tobacco companies are claiming that taxpayers have been unfairly made to pay for the treatment of smoking-related illnesses...
Most important was to get Alex moving, to reassure him that physical therapy would not harm him even though it would hurt. Not only would exercise help restore his strength, but Berde had found that it seemed also to help reprogram and quiet the misfiring nerves. Alex spent two months in the hospital. By March, six months after he first became ill, he had begun to walk with a cane. He recovered steadily, though he still needed physical therapy and took several years to regain his strength...
...officials claim Cosentino's departure will not harm the recruiting season...
Details of just what went wrong inside the Jones camp were hard to come by, but it appears that Cammarata and Davis told their client that the deal at hand--the full $700,000 she'd originally asked for, plus a statement of regret from Clinton about any harm to her reputation--was the best she could do and strongly urged her to take it. But Jones, now married with two young children and living in California, has long said she was in this fight to win an apology, not a payoff. And with Carpenter-McMillan's backing, she rejected...
Soros is naive to think that decriminalizing drug use would be a step in the right direction. Yes, we should try to reduce the harm done by over-punitive policies toward ordinary drug users, who are victims not criminals. But we need to avoid making dangerous and addictive drugs more easily available, especially to our youth. This requires careful modification of policy, different for each drug, not sweeping legalization. AVRAM GOLDSTEIN Stanford, Calif...