Word: harms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week came the climax to one of the most remarkable episodes in U.S. criminal annals. The man thus saved -if perhaps only temporarily-was convicted twelve years ago of 17 felonies and sentenced to death on two of those crimes, both of them kidnaping for robbery, with bodily harm. In itself, the man, his crime and his punishment would scarcely cause a ripple of interest beyond the California state line. Yet, in the days preceding the reprieve, concern for the fate of Caryl Chessman had swept itself into a passionate whirlwind that whipped around the globe, gathered up pleas...
...good word to say for the headache and muscle pains of grippe or flu, so mild, painkilling drugs win ready approval. Trouble is that the commonest of these are aspirin and related salicylates -and these also drop the body temperature. Therefore even they may do harm as well as good...
...current calls for corporate statesmanship in price setting, he insists that prices should not be set on the basis of public or political policy, but on the needs of the corporation and what the market will bear -the higher the better. To do otherwise, he says, often does more harm than good: "The new corporate morality may result in prices and wages which sabotage the market mechanism and systematically distort the allocation of resources." Shareholders' Democracy? This new corporate morality is the product of the professional manager, the new type of corporate boss, who has taken over from...
...Hussein got back home from his tour, he listened with a heavy heart to the torrent of complaints about his brother -Mohammed badgering newspaper editors to put his picture on the front page, Mohammed phoning the radio station to play again and again his favorite tunes, Mohammed threatening physical harm to the U.A.R. ambassador, Mohammed boxing the ears of a group of girls who did not pay the proper attention to him. Once before, over the objections of doting Queen Mother Zaine, Hussein had tried to persuade the prince to go abroad for medical treatment. Finally last week, the palace...
...Grant's superior, General in Chief Henry Halleck, that was strongly advanced by Historian Kenneth Williams in his massive Lincoln Finds a General. Halleck had long been dismissed as a well-intentioned duffer, but Catton, like Williams, concedes that "on balance" he did Grant more good than harm...