Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only represents a background that can rankle a tobacco-chewing coal miner like Nye Bevan or a sidewalk hawker like Herbert Morrison, but his Socialist ideas diverge markedly in some respects from "orthodox" party doctrine. Yet Gaitskell's friends feel that his academic training has done him no harm, because he has been able to combine intelligence and ability with shrewd political skill to navigate his rise through the Party hierarchy...
...first report as dean of the Graduate Faculties of Columbia University, Historian Jacques Barzun warned: "As the highest institution of learning, the graduate school suddenly finds that it may soon become the last dike in the flood. Elsewhere, the diluting of quality may do limited or temporary harm. Not at the top. Somewhere the idea of scholarship must be kept unimpaired. Clearly, the graduate school is the one autonomous place where this can and must be done...
...moral suasion that stopped them?" Answered Dillon unequivocally: "I don't think it is moral suasion, no." Broadcast three days later, Dillon's recorded remarks stirred pro-Americans in Egypt, who were afraid that apparent U.S. sponsorship of the phony Moscow-did-it line might harm U.S. prestige just when that prestige was needed to get the Suez Canal running again. In Washington the State Department quickly announced that Dillon "was expressing his personal views in answer to a question"; privately State's exasperated spokesmen predicted that Soviet propaganda would make much of Dillon's blunder...
...produced ideas at a fantastic rate, but he was also a poor manager. He hardly ever answered mail. Instead, he stacked unopened letters in a pile to ripen. When they were so old that their writers no longer hoped for an answer, he felt it would do no harm to throw them away. He cut classes, was usually stony broke, ignored university budget restrictions. Sometimes he would ring furiously for his secretary when he was already dictating...
...when they can buy bonds yielding as much and buy conventional mortgages yielding more." Neither will savings and loan associations, which currently guarantee a 4% interest payment to depositors in some areas, thus must ask 6% to stay in business. Furthermore, the new rate may do as much harm as good. Instead of siphoning money away from businessmen, it may simply dry up completely the market for VA loans, which are still limited to 4½%. The Administration may ask Congress next month for permission to boost VA rates to 5%, but congressional approval is still in doubt...