Word: harmfulness
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...result of this is a program that, if[Harvard] goes ahead with the listed internships,it will harm everyone: Black South Africans,Harvard University, and people... who are put inmisleading situations and return to the UnitedStates with a distorted picture of life in SouthAfrica and of the state of South African society,"the report charges, after exhaustively attackingthe value of internship possibilities listed atOCS...
Plummeting oil prices can do both grievous harm and enormous good. Less expensive oil means lower energy costs for consumers and companies, which can give a substantial boost to U.S. and worldwide growth. At the same time, however, a further fall in oil prices could deal a crippling blow to U.S. energy firms and debt-ridden oil producers, including Mexico, Nigeria and Venezuela. Their woes might then threaten banks and rock the international financial system. Says Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "The oil-price collapse suddenly woke people up to the fact that the financial crisis...
...central to life at Harvard today. I have yet to encounter a student who felt his College career wasted for lack of membership in a Club, though some, no doubt suffer mild disappointment. The possibility of belonging simply leavens the loaf for those eligible and interested, while inflicting little harm on any interested but ineligible. In treating the matter otherwise, I believe that the College has erred, confusing licit discrimination with that which is properly abjured...
...sufficient that the Committee on College Life have opportunity to persuade? Even as I would hope to persuade Harvard, other universities and the government that they should outlaw discrimination, not as a matter of principle, but only when necessary to protect those discriminated against from serious harm...
There is, of course, ample room for honest disagreement as to when the harm done by individuals acting freely outweighs that done by restricting their freedom. But, it's always a trade-off, and if the restrictions serve no purpose except that of imposing majority values on a minority (as seems the case with the Clubs), we sell freedom cheap by accepting them...