Word: harmfulness
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Fallout in Canada. Reaction elsewhere was less businesslike. Alaska's Governor William Egan declared that responsibility for any harm done to the Aleutian Islands (which with Japan and California are situated on the Circum-Pacific Girdle of Fire) should be borne by the AEC and the President. The Canadian government expressed a "deep sense of disquiet" and, like Egan, held the Administration accountable for any aftereffects that might be caused by the explosion. Taking a more direct approach, a Canadian group chartered a minesweeper, Greenpeace, Too, and sailed from Vancouver for Amchitka, where they intended to anchor outside...
...open hearing, concurred. "I would only add that, in the course of stating their grievances, complainants have made allegations that, if true, are very much to the discredit of third parties. We hope to disprove them, but reporting them to the public might, in the meantime, do serious harm to several individuals," he said...
Ralph Nader's latest task force report, co-edited by two Harvard students, said the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation has outlived its usefulness and charged the Bureau with building water projects which harm the environment and waste taxpayers' money...
...with the administration and regulation of the legitimate drug industry. Its purpose is to prevent medically useless or dangerous drugs from reaching the public through the legitimate drug market. The second set of classifications categorizes drugs for penalty purposes according to their potential for abuse and the degree of harm to the individual user...
Asked if he would like to live right behind a high-rise apartment building himself, Romagna appeared flustered for a moment and answered, "Why, sure, I don't suppose it would do any harm...