Word: harmfulness
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...wrote the first of two articles on the topic, arguing that certain inflammatory statements, even if they led to harm, cannot be suppressed, because the speaker's "contribution to the genesis of the harmful act was superseded by the agent's own judgment...
According to the survey, conducted by Professor Lawrence Schlemmer of the University of Natal, 75% of the 551 workers questioned said they disagreed with a strategy of disinvestment and 41% said that such a policy would harm blacks. According to Schlemmer, blacks "do not wish to see their work opportunities destabilized by political action." Concludes Schlemmer: "South Africa is a labor-surplus economy, and those who have jobs are aware that they are privileged. They may want to throw the political bath water out, but they don't want to throw the baby out with...
...gesture, though they neglected to point out that Washington has not extended the courtesy since 1978. Reagan expressed cautious optimism that a session with Gromyko might lift some of the "suspicion and hostility" that have lately poisoned U.S.-Soviet relations and "maybe convince him that the U.S. means no harm." He hardly needed to add that the chance to be seen shaking hands with Gromyko in the White House Oval Office could reap rich political dividends for himself. Such statesmanlike vignettes could only provide voters with a comforting counterpoint to his recurrent image as a diplomatic gunslinger...
...Commission. It said in July that the domestic industry was being damaged by imports and urged a five-year program of high tariffs and quotas for such important products as sheet and strip steel, plate and wire. Reagan would have none of it. Quotas, he said, would do more harm than good to the economy and not "be in the national interest," even though they might temporarily save some jobs in steel. Voluntary restraints seemed to be the only workable...
...absolute. No private individual has a constitutional right to defame another maliciously or to communicate so loudly or intrusively as to invade another's privacy without justification. No one is free to speak in such a way as to create a "clear and present danger" of inflicting immediate harm on others, a principle illustrated by Justice Holmes's famous example of causing needless panic by falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. In rare situations where choices must be made among competing applicants--as when two groups seek to use the same forum at the same time--officials must choose...