Word: harmfulness
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When the speed limit on interstate highways was lowered to 55 in the last decade, for instance, traffic fatalities were drastically reduced. Driving slower did appear to have a significant effect on the harm to society as a whole, in terms of the loss of human life. And yet, recent years have seen an effort by states to take back the right to impose their own speed limits because of what many took to be an unreasonable restriction on the way in which individuals chose to live their lives; specifically, the manner in which they chose to drive...
...those charges can be proved, they could harm the President far more than the ones he tried to turn aside in his news conference -- rated even by Republican foes as an impressively smooth performance -- or the accusations leveled by G.O.P. Congressman Jim Leach in a speech hours earlier on the House floor. The new charges involve not what obscure Arkansas wheeler-dealers did 15 years ago but what was said as recently as late February by George Stephanopoulos, the President's most trusted political adviser after his wife and the Vice President. And the story brings up the dread words...
...That probe would almost inevitably delve into the alleged flow of money between Madison and Whitewater Development Co., in which the Clintons were partners with James McDougal, Madison's former owner. Thus the participants in the vain attempt to get Stephens could try to invoke the basketball rule: no harm, no foul. Or they could claim that when White House aides made remarks merely to express dislike and suspicion of Stephens (the aides make no secret they consider him a "right-wing zealot" out to get the President), those statements were misinterpreted as a demand that Stephens be fired. Still...
...should not link irrelevant issues to trade because in the long run it might harm the U.S. MFN is the basis for normal trade between our countries. Should there be problems with that, it would mean a great retrogression in our relations. It would also mean that the U.S. does not care about sacrificing its position in the China market, perhaps permanently. Supposedly a government should represent the interests of the American business community as well as the American people...
...have to follow the courts--we shouldfollow what is right for Harvard Law School, andshould be confident that the courts will follow,"Dershowitz said. "The harm at Harvard Law issilence, not speech...