Word: harmfulness
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...medicine claim, for example, that the drug helps cancer patients endure chemotherapy, comforts AIDS victims and eases eye pressure for those who suffer from glaucoma. Last week, however, the U.S. Public Health Service said it will no longer condone cannabis therapy because of the fear that the practice could harm people with weak immune systems. The Federal Government currently allows 13 people to use the drug legally, and had approved the treatment for 28 others. Under the ruling, those who now receive marijuana will continue treatment. The 28 new patients will be informed about alternative drug treatments...
...stereotype -- that lesbians are literally man killers. Finally, when the picture was finished, it was slapped with an NC-17 rating. After a few cuts (less than a minute's worth) and many hot words, that was changed to an R, but such wrangles usually do irreparable box-office harm...
Their decision depends on whether the students have demonstrated that they suffer direct harm as a result of discrimination in faculty hiring...
...clear that discriminatory faculty hiring practices would do serious harm to both professors and students...
...Videotapes circulated by the Azerbaijanis include images of disfigured civilians, some of them scalped, others shot through the head. Armenians claim the footage is fake. They insist that they left a corridor open for civilians to flee Khojaly but that Azerbaijani soldiers led a group of 200 civilians into harm's way. The use of surface-to-air missiles, sophisticated Grad rocket batteries and armor proves that both sides are now armed with state-of-the-art weapons that were bequeathed by, sold by or stolen from Soviet units...