Word: harmfulness
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...face a challenge not unlike the campaign against companies doing business in South Africa. In a letter that came to light last week, Harvard University President Derek Bok disclosed that the school has divested its holdings in tobacco companies because their products "create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to other human beings." At the City University of New York, trustees voted last week to dump its $3.5 million worth of tobacco stocks. The C.U.N.Y. divestiture was owing, in part, to the prompting of vice chairman Edith Everett, who serves on the board of a new lobbying group called...
...drew angry criticism from many members of Congress, including Republicans, but Capitol Hill is unlikely to muster the two-thirds vote of both chambers that would be needed to block the measure. Bush argued his case on economic grounds, claiming that to deprive Beijing of its MFN classification would harm the Chinese people, cost capitalist Hong Kong 20,000 jobs and $8.5 billion in exports of Chinese-made goods processed in Hong Kong, and add 40% to the prices American consumers must pay for Chinese imports. But he also defended his action as the best way, ultimately, to ensure...
Instead, they pushed through the 1989 Flag Protection Act, a law cleverly worded to escape judicial scrutiny. The new law was nearly identical to the Texas statute the Court had just struck down, except that it banned all attempts to harm or mutilate the flag, regardless of whether they were intended to "cast contempt...
...plant's output showed that this hypothesis was unfounded. More important, the aviation industry switched from rayon cord to metallic cord. Whatever rationale the Baikal complex may once have had -- and it never offset the potential harm to the lake -- vanished. Construction nevertheless went ahead, with whole armies of officials defending their decision and saving face by insisting on the complex's importance for the defense of the country, the usual clinching argument...
...June I traveled with Khariton to the Installation in his personal railroad car. After supper Khariton said, "((KGB chief Yuri)) Andropov called me in. His agents have been finding copies of your essay all over the place -- it's circulating illegally, and it will cause a lot of harm if it gets abroad. Andropov asked me to talk to you. You ought to withdraw it from circulation...