Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sources that are easy and cheap to control, but let out more discharges from sources that are hard and costly to curb. Plants in the same neighborhood can form a bubble and make the accepted trades among themselves. However, a firm cannot trade off the emission of a relatively harmless pollutant for a carcinogenic or otherwise hazardous substance...
Head for the book department. Books are relatively harmless, and compact. What's more, they double as doorwedges for illiterate gift recipients. In a good bookstore, you can blow off your endless list in an hour...
Jurisdictional jealousy, while annoying, is harmless--unless the regional offices are not doing their jobs. Internal memos state that regional offices have repeatedly ignored reports of leaking industrial dumpsites, and have allowed toxic chemicals to pollute water and food supplies for thousands of people without taking any action...
Vellucci was referring to the representatives of Harvard and MIT who spent more than an hour trying to convince the board that the waste, produced by medical experimentation, was harmless...
...designate everything that happens in the world as art, as a form of "social sculpture." Since in the present intellectual climate of Germany nearly every act can be read as political, the artist assumes the stature of a revolutionary prophet. The result is Beuys as political Luftmensch, reeling off harmless Utopian generalizations about social renewal through universal creativity, supporting the Free International University, and engaging in squabbles with the Düsseldorf Academy. This, however, is less social sculpture than social packaging. Beuys is a master of the art of self-representation, the last man to become a real celebrity...