Word: harmfulness
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Armstrong said he made rent control the exception because Question 9's implementation would harm tenants in Cambridge, Boston and Brookline--the three state communities with rent control laws...
Armstrong disagreed. He said greater harm would result to retailers, who would lose profits at the height of the Christmas shopping season. And he said Massachusetts would be denied valuable sales-tax revenue if stores were kept closed...
...disagreed with Armstrong's argument that the enactment of some questions would cause more harm than that of others...
...statement to the court, Sacks argued that the plaintiffs failed to show "imminent irreparable harm" in seeking emergency relief from the Superior Court ruling...
...fate was on the line on a ballot question that had no description," agreed Matthew Henzy of the Massachusetts Tenants Organization. "We feel some people voted yes not knowing the harm it would do to the people...