Word: harmfulness
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Just as Merckle was a symbol of Germany's industrious spirit, his death may come to symbolize the way Germany is dealing with the global financial crisis. For years, German media and politicians railed against U.S. and British private-equity companies as a plague of destructive "locusts" who inflicted harm on German society. As Merckle's stock-market gamble failed, he seemed to become a homegrown locust for commentators and politicians looking for a scapegoat for the financial situation...
...services,” Decker said. “I do support the idea that the city pays the hospital $5 million dollars, but right now its unclear what we get in return for that.” Decker said she certainly is “not looking to harm services,” and pointed out that her entire family receives health care at the CHA even though she has the financial means to go elsewhere. Decker criticized councilors for being “more anxious about making hospital administrators nervous about losing dollars than about the services that...
...Even in India, the terror attacks in Mumbai uncovered a deep well of anger against the democratically elected government for its failure to carry out a fundamental function: protect citizens from harm. And Japan, the region's oldest democracy? In recent years the country has cycled through Prime Ministers nearly as quickly as fashion fads...
...obtain kidneys from living donors - usually close relatives, who must undergo an extremely invasive and dangerous operation to donate the organ. But machine preservation, if used more widely, could help curb that trend, says Ploeg. "When we have good kidneys from deceased donors, we don't have to harm a living donor," he says...
Enter "green medicine" - the effort to detoxify the healing environment and enhance patients' and employees' health, while reducing costs all around. The international advocacy group Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) - whose 2006 study of 1,200 nurses suggested a link between the hospital environmental and health problems among the staff - has been a pioneer in the movement, recently initiating collaborative research among major U.S. health systems to document how removing toxins from the environment impacts worker safety and lost time due to employee illness...