Judge Fowler referred to the fact that the victim was alone and had suffered "a profound degree of harm" as a result.

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In rich countries enthusiasm for new forms of prescriptive supervision seems to be directly proportional to the degree of harm suffered during the banking crisis, or to the threat from failing banks to bring down their governments with them.

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It is also difficult to know with precision the nature and degree of the harm that may have been prevented.

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They would also require our courts to revisit the decades old debate over the degree of insult and severity of emotional harm necessary to give rise to a legal remedy for injured feelings.

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Second, the greater the degree of influence the individual or firm exercises over the investment outcome (or alternatively, the greater the risk of harm such an individual or firm poses), the greater the degree of scrutiny that should be brought to bear and the less conflicts of interest should be tolerated.

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