Word: harmfulness
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...Brien complained that proposed cuts in Federal student aid programs would especially harm this state, where the survey shows 155,668 people work in private higher education. "It's not something that will affect everyone equally. It will affect Massachusetts more," he said of the measure's nationwide impact...
...first of five sales of California leases. Many Californians fear that more offshore leasing would mean beaches blackened by spills, increased air pollution from diesel-powered pumps, and other health and environmental hazards. Fishermen claim that increased drilling activity would disrupt their $1.25 billion industry and that pollution would harm feeding and spawning grounds. Businessmen dependent on the state's $31 billion tourism industry fear that the mere sight of oil rigs along stretches of California's wild coast would drive away vacationers...
Less than an hour later, two A-7 attack planes took off from the Saratoga after Navy sensors detected radar emissions from the missile site at Surt. They flew to about 40 miles from the base and released their high-speed anti- radiation missiles (HARM). The missiles home in on radar waves and are designed to destroy the transmitter, not the missiles or launchers themselves. "We shot out the tires," said one Pentagon official. "We didn't need to fire a pistol through the windshield to take out the driver...
About four hours after the first strike on the Surt missile base, American sensors again detected radar from the site scanning the gulf. Weinberger later said he "would assume" that Soviet technicians helped the Libyans repair the base. American planes launched two more HARM missiles, and again the radar went dead. The final American strike occurred later that morning: a pair of fighter jets hit at least one Libyan vessel near Benghazi...
...satisfy the onerous requirements of public relations both at home and abroad, Reagan had to find a pretext for sailing the Sixth Fleet into harm's way. But assuring free passage in international waters had only a little more to do with the actual reasons for sending ships across Gaddafi's line of death than rescuing American medical students did with invading Grenada in 1983; as pretexts go, it was about on a par with citing arms shipments to rebels in El Salvador in order to aid the contras in Nicaragua. Scoffed Senator Gary Hart of Colorado: "There is always...