Word: harmfulness
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...presumption in previous administrations was that this information should not be classified unless it would cause discernible harm," Blanton says. "The presumption in the Reagan Administration has been that this stuff shouldn't be released...
...dozen Arab families in response to the alleged stoning of a young Jewish girl. It was later discovered that the girl had been mistakenly shot by her Jewish bodyguard and that not only had the Arab villagers not stoned her to death, but also that they had prevented further harm from coming to the other Israeli children in the entourage, Nevertheless, 12 Arab families stand staring at the rubble which were once their homes, destroyed for a crime their owners did not commit...
...many of Swaggart's followers, though, the larger concern is what harm the past year of Gospelgate will do to his remarkable denomination. "We are ready to put this matter behind us," states the group's weary leader, G. Raymond Carlson. Understandably so. The double-barreled embarrassment involving Bakker and Swaggart, the Assemblies' two most visible evangelists, has unforgettably tarnished preparations for the denomination's 75th anniversary next year. But so far the damage has been controllable, testimony to the extraordinary vigor of the Assemblies...
...nonaligned Communist country. His primary goal during the five-day trip was to improve relations with Yugoslavia, which was cast out of the Soviet orbit by Joseph Stalin in 1948 for taking an independent political line. In a speech to the National Assembly, Gorbachev apologized for the "great harm" caused by Stalin's "unfounded accusations" of disloyalty against Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia's longtime leader, who died...
...what's a little smack? What harm can come from a few arms shipments to Communist rebels?" Reagan must have said to himself during all those years twixt then and now as he let Noriega carry on his entrepreneurial ventures. Noriega was our man in Panama; for years the CIA had considered him as one of their very own secret agents. So even if Noriega wasn't a particulary nice...