Word: harms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to the nationwide crime statistics gathered by the FBI, Negroes, making up 10% of the total U.S. population, account for considerably more than half of all arrests for murder, robbery, and other crimes involving bodily harm or the threat...
...case when Parliament reconvenes next week. He may yet, as in the past, confound his critics in Commons. But the affair may seriously affect the Tories' already shaky chances at the next elections, which Macmillan will now probably try to delay. Said Tory Backbencher Lord Lambton: "The harm this will do to the Conservative Party will be enormous. There has been for some time a general feeling of unrest in this country as to the morality of the present government. This feeling will be immensely increased...
Despite its lack of alarm, the report clearly recognizes that the large-scale use of pesticides is a new phenomenon that should be studied and carefully regulated. There is no doubt that in large quantities some chemicals can do harm, and the small amounts of pesticides that get into human bodies at present may have long-term effects that have not yet been recognized. New pesticides may prove to have unexpected dangers, and familiar ones may become damaging if they accumulate in soil or ground water. To avoid such threats, the report recommends: > More federal research on the effects...
...Potlako Leballo, who fled to the British-ruled enclave of Basutoland, Poqo is a terrorist offshoot of Sobukwe's militant Pan-African Congress and is determined to "murder the whites or chase them into the sea." As it turned out, Leballo's big mouth did Poqo more harm than good. Embarrassed British officials ordered his arrest, and he barely escaped into Basutoland's rugged mountains, leaving behind him a list of 10,000 black rebels in South Africa. Thanks either to coincidence or to Basutoland's connivance, South African police rounded up 2,000 rebels...
...constitutions discriminate against minorities. That unwritten rule exists because the University learned that the social aims of clubs which required discriminatory clauses were uniformly pernicious. The University very likely would not recognize a Harvard Anti-Semitic League or a Harvard Segregation Club, even if these groups did not materially harm other undergraduates. On the same grounds, the University can afford to tolerate the real discrimination of the final clubs: the clubs are intellectually vacuous and socially innocuous. Thus the Faculty committee will be justified in applying the University's tradition against discrimination only if it is convinced that the social...