Word: harmfulness
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...Senators Carol Mosely Braun and Paul Wellstone courageously blocked the $16 billion recission bill scheduled to become law this week, official Washington made a belated effort to cover the immediate harm which such cutbacks will inflict on the poor and elderly. Yet the spectacle of serious advocacy on Capitol Hill for the disadvantaged may have distracted the press from the larger story behind conservatives' blitzkrieg attacks on American social programs. The Contract with America represents not merely a Republican effort to enact conservative ideology, but also a strategy to permanently entrench Republican majorities through a systematic effort to cripple political...
...everyone agrees with Dworkin and MacKinnon, by any means; even some feminists think there is a place in life--and the Internet--for erotica. In her new book, Defending Pornography, Nadine Strossen argues that censoring sexual expression would do women more harm than good, undermining their equality, their autonomy and their freedom...
...Endangered Species Act is safe-- for now. In one of the most significant environmental rulings in decades, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the 1973 law prohibits not only direct harm to endangered species, but also to their natural surroundings. The timber industry and Oregon landowners, irked for years by costly protections the law afforded dwindling species including the infamous Spotted Owl, had argued successfully before a federal appeals court last year that the government's interpretation was too broad. (That decision said only direct threats, such as hunting or trapping, were covered.) Today's ruling, however,only accelerated...
Each of these groups takes issue with positions they say Fried supports. Their spokespeople say they believe that Fried's confirmation would cause irreparable harm to the causes they represent...
...should meet the child's need to be protected from harm that comes from continuous exposure to violence whose primary purpose is to serve as a conveyance for commercial matter...