Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full of joy to realize that I never had anything to do with any divestment campaign." Paton, unlike those who protest today, knows that the divestiture movement rests more on moral outrage than on a sober evaluation of South African realities. Because American disinvestment can so easily harm those whom it ought to help, and because Harvard's financial involvement with repressive regimes hardly begins and ends with South Africa, blanket divestiture would represent the first step into an ethical minefield...
...light of the potential for disinvestment to grievously harm the Black population, to indulge in short-sighted moral posturing over Harvard's portfolio is irresponsible and self-serving. Moreover, to concentrate exclusively on South Africa is inconsistent at best and hypocritical at worst. While demanding divestiture from companies which have played a positive role in breaking down the apartheid structure, the protesters ignore these same companies' role in supporting the totalitarian regimes of Angola and the Soviet Union. The case for divestiture is much more compelling in dealing with these regimes, under which American businesses have absolutely no potential...
...they have ever represented a legitimate rebellion against the Nicaraguan government, it is clear now that the Contras are entirely a creation of U.S. foreign policy--dependent on their paymaster for their limited ability to inflict malicious harm on the Nicaraguan people...
During his five-day stay, the Prince met Governor Mark White, toured a San Antonio urban renewal project, and visited the battlefield where General Sam Houston won Texas' independence from Mexico. He also walked through a Houston oil refinery, where the falling price of oil is doing more harm to Texas than Santa Anna ever did at the Alamo: state tax revenues from oil could fall by $1 billion this year. After presenting a Winston Churchill Award to Dallas Businessman H. Ross Perot for his "bold imagination, pioneering spirit and dynamic leadership," Charles left for California. Despite his princely welcome...
...that context, many of the more extreme proposals being advocated on Capitol Hill run the risk of proving counterproductive. Sweeping moves to cut off military aid to the Philippines (a modest $55 million this year) seem especially likely to do more harm than good. Morale among the often corrupt and ill-equipped Philippine armed forces is already bad. An aid cutoff might make things worse, although some Philippine military reformists dispute that. Even so, eliminating all American money might prove especially hazardous for armed-forces reformers, who have been chafing at the stagnation of the late Marcos years. Without protective...