Word: harmfulness
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...failed miserably in their effort, and in so doing they left the way open for yet another devastating run-up in interest rates, which have bedeviled the economy throughout the Reagan presidency and indeed during much of the Carter presidency that preceded it. The renewed upward pressure now threatens harm to businesses large and small alike, and indeed to everyday people by the millions. They can do little but stand by and watch as already fading hopes for a robust recovery this year fade even further...
...entire exercise is one that leaves me very cold indeed," President Bok told the Crimson. "It seems to me to reflect primarily the commercial orientation of college sports I think has been the source of considerable harm to what institutions of higher education are trying to accomplish...
...London omnibus is heavily influenced by New York and Washington, that he will take into account the implications of America's economic decisions on other countries and that he recognizes an obligation to coordinate policy as far as possible so that we do not harm one another, then by the modest standards of results expected from these annual summits, Versailles will be counted a success...
...clearly Bok's ethical distinctions. Introducing the controversial conception of neutrality, Bok states that "there is a difference between the obligations of someone who has pushed an innocent child into the river and the responsibilities of the spectators who line the shore. By taking some positive action that inflicts harm on others, we incur duties that do not fall on the mere bystander [his emphasis]." The implication of this analogy is that Harvard has no complicity in apartheid by virtue of its stock portfolio. "Granted, universities have not caused apartheid in South Africa.... Granted, they will probably not make matters...
Earlier in the week Hinckley's brother Scott, 31, and sister Diane, 29, testified that they had urged their father to have John institutionalized but that he had refused, concerned that it would do more harm than good. Scott, who works with his father, described his brother as a loner and noted that "John was a very emotionless person...