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...have to appeal to people's best instincts, not their worst ones. You may win an election or so by doing the other, but it does a lot of harm to the country." -Harry Truman
...economic future. "The question," says a West European diplomat in Warsaw, "is whether they will behave like British unions, which are interested only in their own demands, regardless of the cost to the nation, or whether they will, like West German unions, moderate their demands so as not to harm the overall economy." Poles at large were generally aware of that danger. The country's economy, as Communist Party Official Mieczyslaw Rakowski describes it, "already resembles a punching bag hanging from a thin thread...
...been discarded as casually as household garbage. Many bear mystifying names: trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, dichloroethylene, dibromochloromethane, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). These, and many more, are suspected of contributing to the rising incidence of cancer in the U.S. But experts in the field are quick to admit the difficulty of proving the harm caused by chemical wastes. Says Mount Sinai's Selikoff: "When it comes to chemicals and illness, it's hard to prove cause and effect, though we certainly have our suspicions...
...Secret Doctrine. Her Tibetan Masters dictated these volumes to her, she seems to have been convinced, although their San skrit quotations tended to be shaky. If a bit of spiritualist theater in a darkened room helped to shore up the convictions of her fellow Theosophists, where was the harm? It was charlatanism in the highest cause of all, she felt, and thus when one of her stunts went wrong, or when a dis gruntled confederate published letters from her, giving detailed instructions for illusions, H.P.B. was unembarrassed...
...hospital released a statement in June saying that although the incident did not harm scientific research, "a very real regret is even the slightest injury that might possibly result in the faith researchers and the public have in the integrity of medical investigation...