In these and other areas, the Obama defense and foreign policies have the potential to do much good or considerable harm to the national interest.
The consequences must be weighed to ensure that it will not do more harm than good to the people it seeks to protect.
While many may want to condemn these proposed technologies as nefarious military weapons likely to do more harm than good, it would be foolish to do so without first considering the commercial applications likely to flow from these technologies.
But the report suggests that restrictions associated with life on the registry do more harm than good and amount to continued punishment with little evidence to suggest the public is any safer.
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The virtuous 60, chosen among Canada's largest companies, will have passed tests designed to reflect the current standards of a small but growing number of investors who want their money to be a force for good (or at least to do no harm).
Overtly trying to control the conversation can do far more harm to your reputation than good.
Certain factions of the consumer bankruptcy bar reacted violently to my recent post, Consumer Bankruptcies Do More Harm Than Good, as I suspect they will to this offering.
Green MP Caroline Lucas said Britain needed to ensure its role was "beyond reproach" and was "consistent, principled and more likely to do good than harm".
Others believe that they would work, but would do more harm than good by encouraging Iranians to rally around the government at a time when the protest movement looks as though it might just bring about change.
Part of Thain's job, like that of a good physician, is to do no harm.
Yet, the exact same technology also carries a set of intimately-associated liabilities, dangers we must recognize and respect if we are to do more good than harm.
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It does their teeth no good, but otherwise seems to do little harm.
But Americans who think a vastly expanded federal government is likely to do more harm than good should think twice.
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Even if the MACT Rule does not turn out the lights, it is likely to do more harm than good.
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An analysis of nine medical trials involving over 100, 000 people without a history of cardiovascular disease found that aspirin was more likely to do them harm than good.
In January 2012 I was asked whether I was still taking it, after medical trials showed that for those without a history of heart disease or stroke, aspirin was more likely to do harm rather than good.
But the bank might do more harm than good if it shifted focus from absolute poverty to relative deprivation.
Dr Rivalan and his colleagues have shown that this long-winded process gives the market so much time to respond that bumping animals up from Appendix II to Appendix I can do more harm than good.
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In September the United States Preventive Services Taskforce, a panel of medical experts, concluded that tests to screen for ovarian cancer do more harm than good.
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All of this suggests that although there is a strong case for a more system-wide approach to oversight, it could do more harm than good if poorly crafted.
Researchers from four top business schools have collaborated to show that in many cases goals do more harm than good.
Sluggish employment growth and high unemployment rates naturally add to new calls for protection that would do more harm than good.
Some of those concerns are valid, but reopening Sec. 230 to address all of them would do far more harm than good.
But one done in haste, and mainly to help win an election, could yet do more harm than good.
But many companies, including some that have given in to the boycotters, argue that such withdrawals do more harm than good.
Then Chairman Bernanke will hint that another round of easing may be needed after all, but several Fed governors will come out and say the Fed needs to wait, that another round of QE will do more harm than good.
Trying to use capital controls to slow the tide, the IMF said, would do more harm than good.
But setting targets can lead to all sorts of fixes and fiddles, which do as much harm as good.
Designed to detoxify the system, it can do more long-term harm than good.
To compound this misdiagnosis, The Economist proffers medicine that would do more harm than good.
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