Word: harming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question at his midweek press conference, Ike casually agreed that an interchange of meetings between Zhukov and his U.S. opposite number. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, "might" be useful. "Marshal Zhukov and I operated together very closely [in occupied postwar Berlin]," said Eisenhower. "I couldn't see any harm coming from a meeting between the two Defense Ministers, if that could be arranged...
While his superiors considered this suspicious request, Serafino reached a decision of his own. "That policeman," he said later, "had done me no harm. I decided instead to kill off the Mafia...
Despite the uncomfortable short-term effects on industrial expansion, few economists are seriously worried that the present capital shortage will harm the free world's economy over the long run. Most consider it an inevitable and, to some extent, desirable byproduct of worldwide prosperity. In many nations, the shortage of money acts as a brake on hell-for-leather expansion programs that threaten to burst their economic seams. Often the general effect is to create a natural rationing system based on the laws of supply and demand, which tends to channel capital away from marginal projects into more important...
...Dublin's smallest statistic is his most impressive. Searching for cases where any harm to health, even among the aged and ailing, is attributable to fluorides, he found...
...well. One follow-up survey showed that the water cure helps between 53% and 70% of patients with certain types of asthma, improves more than half of the patients with skin diseases. Most French doctors let their patients take the waters on the theory that they will do no harm, and may do some good. "Cures always have a hygienic value," says Professor Pierre Delore of the University of Lyon's Faculty of Medicine. "They are an occasion for giving calm and also for ridding the system of its poisons. They are healthy vacations...