Admittedly, the range of new potions is bewildering, but there is little evidence that they do much harm.
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Indeed, a forced devaluation may do much more harm to investor confidence than continuous exchange-rate fluctuations.
Likewise, the spontaneous acts of citizenship that mobile phones facilitate can do as much harm as good.
Freek Vermeulen explained why banks that give big bonuses often do much more harm than good.
But setting targets can lead to all sorts of fixes and fiddles, which do as much harm as good.
In the former cases, the merging of the two businesses and any changes in human capital don't do nearly as much harm.
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.
Yet no industry is so unregulated, so dimly perceived, promises so much but can often do so little -- or so much harm.
Deutsche Bank reckons that even South Korea, whose exports compete more directly with Japan than do China's, is unlikely to suffer much harm from a weaker yen.
It takes weeks to read, weighs as much as a Sunday roast and might do real harm if thrown from a moving vehicle or hurled (as impatient readers may wish to do around the 700-page mark) willy-nilly from an upper-storey window.
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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