Word: harmfulness
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...opening dialogue. Hamas has responded to my appeal for an urgent meeting in Yemen. I am also insisting that Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, be released very soon. The Palestinian people who opposed all these sacrifices will not harm this victory...
...threat to baseball as we know it than the newly proposed playoff system. The owners like it--which should already tip us off to trouble ahead. If baseball is Americana, this new system is like the former Soviet Union. It's backward, and it's likely to cause more harm than good...
...opened up a vein here. We're going to mine it until this whole thing turns around." The problems with this statement run deeper than Haislip's unfortunate drug-addled "vein" analogy. The fact that the DEA has tripled spending and personnel on a drug that doesn't harm anyone physically, doesn't make people harm each other and isn't corrupting national governments in the tropics should make one wonder if in fact the folks on Constitution Ave. haven't been dipping into the stuff they've been sworn to protect us from...
...storyteller's ancient, changeless pattern develops, working as well in Denmark and Greenland as it did for Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California and for Martin Cruz Smith and the series that began with Gorky Park in Moscow. Smilla puts her nose in harm's way and gets it bloodied. Like Archer and like Smith's Russian cop Arkady Renko, she keeps on poking. She's in peril in a glossy casino near Copenhagen, on a powerful, mysteriously equipped icebreaker plowing north toward Greenland, on the floating metal atoll of a huge fueling dock, and finally...
...brave words mask major weaknesses in the pro-democracy movement. International oil customers, hesitant to offend an influential supplier or harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...