Word: harmfulness
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...shares of Gulf Oil Corporation stock. A group of black students, calling themselves the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC), called upon the University to sell its shares in Gulf--valued at about $18.5 million--and thus sever its connection with the company the group said was causing the greatest harm to the people of southern Africa...
...syphilitics still surviving. The agency is treating them for whatever other diseases or physical problems they might have, but it can do little for their syphilis. The average age of the survivors is 74, and the massive penicillin therapy necessary to arrest their long-ignored affliction could do more harm than good. For them, the PHS reversal has come too late...
...reprints are tendentiously edited to emphasize U.S. faults, and Soviet contributors faithfully hew the party line. Even so, USA contains more information, more sophisticated interpretation and less doctrinaire doubletalk than any other official Soviet publication. "Telling and hearing the truth, as we see it, about the U.S. will not harm our society," says Arbatov. Still, USA is considered a bit too candid for the masses: it is not sold on any newsstand in the U.S.S.R. Its circulation is limited to 32,000 copies, mostly among the country's political and managerial leadership...
...would be to inject the anticoagulant into the stomachs of cattle, from which it would pass into their bloodstreams. The dose would not be enough to harm the large animals, but any blood-sucking vampire would get enough to kill...
...heretical study argues that early schooling can be disastrous: "Sending four-year-olds off to school results in far more harm than good. Children probably shouldn't attend school until they are seven or eight . . . Early schooling is little short of crippling...