Word: harms
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...move toward freer trade. "We have been the evangelists of the virtues of free competition. We have preached this gospel incessantly to our European friends." Should the U.S. surrender to protectionism, "we would set off a chain reaction of retaliation and counter-retaliation that would do irreparable harm to the whole Free World, but would hurt us most...
...either convert air motion into electrical signal or electrical signal into air motion. A phonograph cartridge has the related but somewhat different task of converting wiggles in plastic into electrical signals approximating those originally made by the recoring engineer's mikes. While neither a speaker nor a microphone can harm the air it contacts in its attention to its duty, a cartridge can wreak havoc on its medium, the plastic of your records. Clearly, your choice of a cartridge will have a strong bearing on the satisfaction you receive from your home music system. The immediate factor of sound quality...
...damage health. But authorities point out that weather and other uncertain factors can concentrate fallout to high local levels. And the worst is still to come: most of the dangerous radioactive products of the Soviet tests are still floating high in the stratosphere. No one can predict how much harm they will do when they eventually come down...
...interception of Miss Margery Michelmore's post card has put the Peace Corps in a precarious situation. Self-styled cognoscenti will undoubtedly take this opportunity to repeat a favorite charge: the Peace Corps does more harm than good. Their audience will be larger than they deserve, for the "African Rioting" headlines immediately after the incident created an impression not easily dispelled by the more accurate reports of the next...
...recipient countries, the amounts are never sufficient. They never can be, because money alone accomplishes nothing. It is only a tool. The effective spending of large funds requires experience, competence, honesty and organization. Lacking any of these factors, large injections of capital into developing countries can cause more harm than good...