Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elegantly along the western fringes of the capital, the insurgents brought the war home to the wealthy. Using luxury cars as barricades against the army's armored personnel carriers and light tanks, the rebels seized about 40 houses. For the most part, they carefully obeyed F.M.L.N. orders not to harm civilians. American officials warned F.M.L.N. representatives in Mexico City and San Salvador against endangering the lives of U.S. diplomats. None were hurt, but some envoys had close calls. On Thursday a chartered jet evacuated 234 civilian workers and dependents of U.S. officials. "The Bush Administration keeps saying that...
...some might think. The '50s and '60s landscape was one of atomic optimism on the go, of Sputnik-like motels and space-race tail fins. The style captured an attitude of innocent adventure in a TV fantasy of stucco and neon. Could Wally and the Beaver come to serious harm in a drive-in with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than much of today...
...harm you are doing by espousing the 'pro-choice' view will require great efforts to repair," San Diego Bishop Leo Maher wrote last week to Lucy Killea, 67, a Democrat running in a special election for California's state senate. He then applied a little used sanction that denies Communion to Catholics who "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin." Killea says she will abide by the decree but will not change her position. She is the first political candidate to receive this censure...
...ever discourage victims from using the formal Administrative Board process. Nor do I automatically favor informal methods of resolution of a complaint. What I encourage is the active participation of a date rape survivor in the informed choice of a means by which to seek a remedy for the harm she has suffered. In fact, as I pointed out at the panel, choosing a formal course of action can be an enormously empowering experience...
...Knesset member Amnon Rubinstein has acknowledged, "In a democratic system you do not harm and you do not punish unless you first forewarn citizens. This amendment breaches this important rule...