Word: harmfulness
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Official opinion continues to vacillate. Deng has declared that talk of capitalism "cannot harm us," but he has also cautioned that China must "combat the corrosive influence of capitalist ideas." At one point, the People's Daily pronounced that the world had changed so much since the days of Marx and Lenin that "we cannot expect (their) works to solve our present-day problems." A few days later, following angry and anxious cries that the paper had renounced the country's very ideology, the People's Daily backpedaled. It had meant to say, it explained in a retraction, only that...
...portfolio not only to improve the conditions of their nonwhite workers by implementing the Sullivan principles but also to express their opposition to influx control laws and other apartheid measures. It can also urge companies to leave South Africa it their continued presence promises to do more harm than good...
...Revs. Jesse Jackson and Jerry Falwell starred on Nightline last week, locking horns over the subject of U.S. policy in South Africa. Falwell, founder of Moral Majority, argued that withdrawing U.S. investments from South Africa in an effort to coerce the country into abandoning apartheid would do more harm than good. Said he: "We can cut out the cancer without killing the patient." Jackson, head of Operation Push, was less sanguine. "With increased investment in apartheid," he maintained, "the rope around the necks of the people appears to be getting tighter as opposed to looser." The on-camera conversation...
...only satellites flying in low orbit, a few hundred miles high. Reconnaissance or "spy" satellites are < vulnerable, since they hug the edge of the atmosphere for a closer view of earth, but most early-warning and communications satellites--the ones used to fight a nuclear war--float out of harm's way as high as 24,000 miles. Unless, that is, even more effective satellite killers are developed...
...there are no damages, then there is no legal harm and no libel. The Globe won the lawsuit"--Floyd Abrams, prominent First Amendment lawyer, who defended The New York Times" in its 1971 Pentagon Pentagon Papers case...