Word: harmfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard's loss dropped its record to 6-2 overall (4-1 Ivy) but did nothing to harm its growing Ivy title chances...
Cleary: "Let me guess. Let me just imagine. He's not coming to Harvard. Okay, he didn't really want to give Harvard a shot. So where is he going? Where is the worst possible place for him? Where would he do the most harm? Let me think...I know, I know, you sent him to Boston College. The hated Eagles have him. The bunch of bruisers who beat us in the Beanpot consolation game last year--by scoring a goal after the gun had gone off. You gave him to B.C., didn...
Instead, he proposed a "consociational" set-up, where each group would have autonomy in its own affairs, and where each group could veto government policies which might harm its interests. His version of consociationalism requires that the elites of each group trust and cooperate with each other, and that each elite control its followers. "In essence," he wrote, "it is an elite conspiracy to restrain political competition within and among communal groups...
...that we're running an agent at the top of the P.L.O." Furthermore, Rogers and his colleagues in Lebanon slowly discover themselves embroiled in a game with no recognizable rules. After a possibly dangerous mission early in his tenure there, Rogers remarks, "Nobody in the Middle East would dare harm a representative of the United States." This is before the car bombs start blowing Beirut apart...
...retaliation and the Iranian counterstrike abruptly changed the profile of the gulf confrontation. Suddenly it looked less like a protective operation, in which U.S. warships quietly go about keeping Kuwaiti oil tankers out of harm's way, and more like a direct face-off between Iran and the U.S. -- a situation that, given the state of high dudgeon on both sides, could easily slide out of control. Secretary Weinberger, having made his point militarily, tried to turn down the rhetoric. "We do not seek any further confrontation with Iran," he said, "but we will be fully prepared to meet...