Word: harmfulness
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Once he made his discovery, Dr. Pruitt began a loud vocal opposition to the AEC's Project Chariot, which was a plan to use nuclear explosives to blast a spacious harbor in the Alaskan coast. The side effects, he said, would harm the Eskimos even more. Although he was fired from the university, he continued to make all the noise he could about the danger of feeding more fallout into the Eskimo food chain. The AEC's present management now watches the Eskimos carefully and measures their body burden as it creeps ever higher...
...second limitation, which excludes living writers of poetry and fiction, does not harm the library nearly so much as the first stricture. All the same, it is an unnecessary restriction. Presumably, the White House did not want to involve itself in any tiresome little literary wars, and therefore decided to wait until poets and novelists are safely dead and buried before venturing to choose among them. If this was their reasoning, though, why didn't they exclude living political scientists and historians, too? In the academic world, where publishing a book is a condition of existence, professional jealousies, if anything...
Fortunately, the treaty is so innocuous that oversights of this magnitude do no harm. But the Senate, for its own sake, should conduct a debate extending equally to all the important questions which the treaty raises. Narrowing the debate principally to strategy and weaponry forces both sides to parrot the data and analyses of outside agencies and individuals. Both sides surrendered some of their independence when they act as a clearing house for the views of others. Proponents slight the treaty's importance by permitting opinionated experts to inflate minor uncertainties into forboding obsessions. In the process, the proponents neglect...
...justifiably sharp criticisms. They were well summed up by the usually temperate New York Times: "The author of Profiles in Courage has run away from a tough decision to embrace a politically easy one. President Kennedy has taken the easy way out, and a way that can only do harm to the country, the railroads, and, in the long run, to labor as well...
...generation ago, labeling was usu ally unimportant because only a few medicines were potent enough to do much harm. But many of today's high-powered drugs, taken by the wrong patient or at the wrong time, can maim or kill as readily as they can cure. The most notorious example is thalidomide, which was freely sold as a harmless tranquilizer and sleeping pill...