Word: harm
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...blue-collar worker (railroad) who is truly thankful for the countless blessings that I have. I grieve, however, at the greed and selfishness that labor unions are displaying while doing such great harm to those they represent, to say nothing of the forgotten Americans on pensions that are static. I certainly am not going to "Buy American" simply to satisfy the unions' endless greed and penalize myself in quality and value to do so. Indeed, my only consideration will be the best buy for the money. This, I believe, is the American...
...tough and sweeping proposals are controversial. Several executives, notably Vice Chairmen Richard Gerstenberg of General Motors and Herman Weiss of General Electric, dissented from the incomes-policy recommendation, largely on the ground that it would be unworkable. Nevertheless, the majority argued that, at worst, the plan would do little harm; at best, it might reduce by half a percentage point the rate of unemployment that the nation must suffer as the cost of curbing inflation. Hypothetically, a 5.5% jobless rate would do as much to slow price increases as a 6% rate under present policy...
...dinosaurs were affected by magnetic reversals, could they also harm higher animals like man? No one knows the answer, but the question may not be entirely academic. In the past 10 million years, the earth's magnetic poles have reversed themselves, on the average, every 220,000 years. But the last event occurred 700,000 years ago -which means that another switch is now long overdue...
Ronald L. Ziegler, White House Press Secretary, said yesterday that the raid "barely missed." He said he doubted that the raid would bring further harm to U. S. prisoners, but said that "if there were reprisals, the U. S. will hold the leaders of North Vietnam personally responsible...
...incident during which his car was stoned by a mob in San Jose. Telecast again by the Republican National Committee on election eve, it became the party's campaign windup. Though the President sees things differently, there is considerable evidence that the speech did Republican candidates more harm than good. To many voters, the whole approach evidently suggested the rhetoric of the stump politician, not the reasoning of a President who must lead a nation. It is possible to imagine that the speech, without being "above politics," might have been more productive if Nixon had said something like this...