Word: harmfulness
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...armies during the war. Intensified by heat from the fires, the storms could spread a mist of soot and oil across a belt of countries, ranging from Saudi Arabia to India. Apart from posing a health threat to the people closest to ground zero, the pollution is likely to harm wildlife, agriculture and fisheries. At worst, fallout from the oil fires may disrupt the region's annual monsoon rains...
...more general claim that TV has, on balance, done more harm than good for society cannot be dismissed so easily. Television has caused profound changes in the way we think, learn and socialize...
...affordable housing surcharge will only harm tenants, Turk says. He adds, it is the only significant order in the package. "What major piece of action there is, namely the tenant tax, is negative," he says...
...serious harm was done, but the attack served as a warning to the U.N.'s representatives of the pitfalls they face in policing Iraq. It is the most ambitious effort yet by the world body to settle a war and punish an aggressor. Not only must the organization provide refugee relief and keep the peace along a disputed border, but it must also oversee reparations and disarm a nation of its most potent weapons -- which means finding the arms, destroying them and ensuring that they are never replaced...
...recent wave of criticism has led even some of the law's most fervent original advocates to question whether the tax cap in its current form is doing more harm than good...