Word: harmfulness
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...such advice from above can do more harm than good. The union and 1000 students have called on Harvard to remain "neutral" in the upcoming election, by not taking an anti-union stance. While it is too late for the administration to take a believably "neutral" position, since the University has already made it quite clear which side it stands on, it is not too late for Harvard to step back...
...land built by foreigners. And he is one of the good guys, fighting for "truth, justice and the American way," which seems to many people a very good thing to do. Superman's violence is never cruel, however; he punches villains but rarely does them any real harm. His greatest powers are exerted to deflect violence, by stepping in front of bullets, say, or moving huge objects out of harm...
...support a policy of selective divestment," said Roderick M. MacDougall, the chairman of the CCSR and Harvard's treasurer MacDougall said that Harvard should support "companies that are doing more good than harm [in South Africa] by their presence there...
...ennobled the journalism that brought down Nixon; and the more recent Absence of Malice, which examined the way an unfeeling reporter damages personal lives. Both the latter movies, unlike Front Page, argue that the press does matter; the first for the good it can do, the second for the harm. What caused the change in attitude? In his valedictory speech last year as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Creed Black, publisher of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, lamented: "We are blamed for the sins and shortcomings of what television, which is basically an entertainment medium, calls news...
...attempting to broker a solution at this point, Kissinger believes, the U.S. may do harm to its position as a neutral arbiter. "If Shultz doesn't watch his step," Kissinger warns, "he'll have the worst of all worlds. The Israelis will blame him for betrayal, and the Arabs will dismiss him as Israel's lawyer...