Word: harmfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fall into a "curiosity" subgroup including children or teenagers. Of the remaining 40%, some burn down buildings in retaliation for what they perceive as injustice; others are sexually excited by fires and may travel with police-band radios to catch the latest action. Few, according to Fineman, want to harm people. Arsonists usually go out of their way to target unoccupied homes or areas. "But the fires we're seeing here -- wild-land fire setters -- are much more dangerous. It really is a separate category," says Fineman. "The fire setters are doing something with pure malice and intent...
...Clinton Administration's gambit is to set Francois up for a fall, Haiti's chief of repression is not playing. Clinton is determined to avoid a U.S. military intervention and will revisit that decision only if harm comes to any of the thousand or so Americans still in Haiti. "We know that," says an adviser to Francois, "and that's why our No. 1 priority is to protect the Americans here." The military is concentrating now on its Haitian solution to sideline Aristide permanently while keeping U.S. troops at bay. To effect that, they are relying on the advice...
...crime required it, prosecutors erred by hitting Williams and co-defendant Watson with the heaviest possible charges, including attempted murder and aggravated mayhem, both of which carry terms of life in prison. At trial, even videotape evidence couldn't prove the attackers had a specific intent to do harm -- the very thing jurors were required to decide before finding the defendants guilty on the most serious points. "From day one, we thought the prosecution would never be able to prove ((that))," said Edi Faal, the defense attorney for Williams...
...Simas neared the car, the driver sped forward, and the detective had to leap back into his police car to escape harm, officers said. "It was a little bit hairy for a few minutes, but luckily no one got hurt," Rooney said...
...There is never any harm in anyone questioning scientific theories or hypotheses," Essex said, "but this sort of reasoning can become dangerous when the average public health officer or high school student decides not to worry about AIDS, not to take safety precautions...