Word: harmfulness
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...technical challenge is relatively straightforward. The goal is to find substances and processes that can replace CFC-based systems without doing further harm to the stratosphere -- an endeavor that is well under way. In fact, it may turn out to be easier than anyone expected. Except for medical aerosols, some fire-fighting equipment and certain metal-cleaning applications, there are now effective substitutes for virtually every ozone- depleting chemical. Some cost quite a bit more, and others pose different, if less severe, environmental problems. But in a surprising number of cases, the new processes are actually cheaper and better than...
...that she might also be stricken. Holding up her right arm, she pointed to a tiny biopsy scar and revealed that she too had contributed a skin sample for analysis. "They really understood that," Nancy says, "and I think they soon realized that we meant them no harm. I became sort of like a family friend, with syringe...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said hehopes Jeffries' appearance will not harm relationsbetween campus groups, saying, "It'spossible...that his being invited here will createa controversy between groups, and that would betoo bad," Jewett said...
...citrus growers, microchip manufacturers and dairy farmers, all receive some sort of protection or subsidy from a U.S. government seemingly bent on ignoring the long-term prosperity of its people. These economic pressure groups obtain the force of law for the coddling of their interests. In turn, they harm the purchasers of their own products and those in other nations who depend upon these industries for their livelihood...
Domestically, they hurt those businesses and individuals that would market and sell these goods. And "dumping" of cheaply manufactured goods on the U.S. market may harm the short-term interests of some. But it provides underdeveloped or developing nations with sources of capital for fledgling industries. When this occurs, the national and world economies benefit. Only with such attention to allowing the market, which is made up individual persons, to function, can we assure prosperity and economic progress...