Word: harmfulness
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...looks at the distribution of seats in the new Parliament. But if one analyzes the popular vote, it is clear she has no mountainous mandate for her program. Fifty-eight percent of those who voted, over half, rejected her and her party's platform. Whether her proposals will harm or benefit Britain in the years ahead, they certainly do not now enjoy the support of a majority of the British people...
...longer view, the Melbourne Age editorialized: "When Mr. Hawke's warm memory of his days in Washington begins to fade under the pressures at home, he can at least take some comfort from the fact that the cozy pictures with President Reagan will not have done him any harm in terms of Australian politics." Hawke's domestic political honeymoon is almost certainly ending. But his world trip allowed him to demonstrate a confidence, intelligence and friendly manner that consistently impressed foreign leaders-and should come in handy in the political rough-and-tumble ahead...
...impact of U.S. corporate involvement on Black South Africans is a subject of fierce debate. Opponents of divestiture argue that foreign capital is beneficial to South African Blacks and that withdrawal would harm them more than whites in the country. There is, these people emphasize, a considerable trickle-down effect from foreign investment that benefits at least those members of the Black labor force who work in the modern sectors of the economy. Economic growth and prosperity will open up new and more skilled jobs for Blacks, produce better wages, and narrow the Black-white income gap, in addition...
...jungle paparazzo in Honduras with two friends, she told of rescuing a group of refugee hostages from a band of armed guerrillas. "We had no weapons, but we had a camera, and we used that as a weapon," she said. "I guess they felt we could do them harm if our pictures were shown. The people were let go." Meanwhile, over at the Vassar campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Alumna and two-time Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep, 34, gave the commencement address and credited her alma mater with instilling in her "a taste for excellence." But, she added...
Before the Phoenix audience, Reagan, himself a lifelong NRA member, declared that "those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun-control laws." Then he added, referring to his own 1981 shooting: "I happen to know this from personal experience." Earlier in the day, Reagan visited a gathering of some 300 elderly volunteer sheriffs posse members, where he took credit for reducing inflation, fighting crime and saving the Social Security system...