Word: harmfulness
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...high school, I was never anxious about getting injured when I went to a soccer game. Barring any freak sideline collision, my metal folding chair was relatively safe from harm. I took my high school sports seriously; I posted the schedules for all the teams on my bulletin board and lugged around my padded chair, which turned any field into the perfect place for a spectator. I admired my schoolmates' resolve and their long hours of practice, how they fit in time to go to the gym or go running between chem lab write-ups and political-science review sheets...
...significant trauma when they lost their mother. And the nurturing they were given by the caregivers in the weeks and months after her death was especially important to their development. Therefore, I would expect an expert to say that taking them away now from their grandparents would inflict new harm on them...
Demonstrators said they targeted Shell not only for the company's relations with a government notorious for its human rights violations, but also because oil drilling methods harm local Nigerian agriculture and rain forests...
...harm in having [house committees] communicate with us, and telling us how [they're] spending the money," said Eric M. Nelson '99, who is chair of the Student Affairs Committee and a Crimson editor...
Rather than police officers--who represent authority to an age group just beginning to challenge that--homeroom teachers and peers teach Life Skills. In place of long-term harm, which adolescents do not take seriously, it focuses on the immediate adverse effects of drugs. The 15 sessions of improvisation and discussion are meant to make students more confident, more assertive and more discerning about the messages they get from pop culture and from classmates. It appears to work: 4,446 Newark, New Jersey, seventh-graders in a Life Skills program tracked through graduation engaged in only half the drug, tobacco...