Positive human contact is as important as, if not more so than, a good night's sleep or a proper diet.
But the bank might do more harm than good if it shifted focus from absolute poverty to relative deprivation.
Being on the hottest social platform can do more harm than good if the execution is off, sucking up those resources better spent on value-creating activities.
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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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There is also the risk that a pan-European supervisor could do more harm than good if such a body were overly politicised, like so many continental regulators.
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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.
The right response may be to do nothing to accept that ultimately central banks risk doing more harm than good if their actions prevent the purging of past malinvestment or allow politicians to avoid necessary structural adjustments.
Even if Britain remains more prone to inflation than America, there are good reasons why a recession, if one occurs, is likely to be milder than in the past.
"I will admit that, being on radio for many years, when the forecast is for good weather and it's bad, I certainly will get more grief than if the forecast is for bad weather and it's good, " Dr. Sobel said.
This means that a company with poor profit performance can get a buy recommendation if the market has beaten down its price even more than it deserves, while a very good performer can warrant a sell if its valuation is excessively exuberant.
Generally a flu vaccine is considered pretty good if it's more than 60 percent effective.
And in a city so large Mr Gertz's beat holds 8.7m people, with millions more living nearby and with such social problems, crime needs more than policing, even if the police were all good guys.
But if this strategy is going to work, Dole needs more than good trainers and stamina.
Education is an excellent tool, if used properly, but focus more on learning rather than getting good grades.
But it is true that the government's debts are now so mountainous that extra spending, if it pushed up interest rates, would do more harm than good.
If we want more jobs, and more good jobs, than we have been getting, we will have to change our monetary, tax, and regulatory policies to induce private entities to invest more.
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And corrective action on spending, if taken mid-year, does more harm and less good than right-sizing from the start.
I've had more good fortune than anyone I know and if our next gig is doing a show in a 7-11 parking lot, we'll find a way to make it fun.
If it can be shown that a regulation is causing far more harm than good, I have no problem doing away with that regulation.
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They could be permitted to defer its payment, but if it were for more than a couple of years it would be a good indication they should be wound down.
Even if the two combatants knew that the fight was nothing more than a "good ol' boy" disagreement, the way the statute is written could allow a gun to be used if the observer reasonably and actually believed that great bodily harm could occur.
If his stock selection was good, Jones reasoned, he would be more than fully invested.
If you are stocking up on Twinkies, your timing is good for more than one reason.
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And if cloud security is good enough for the DOD, it should be more than adequate for you and me.
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Would you be surprised to learn that if you are not careful you just may end up doing yourself more harm than good?
His belief that Britain can hope to achieve what it wants in the world only if American power is harnessed for benign purposes is a good deal more realistic than the Gaullist yearnings of Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin: without American power and the willingness to use it, there would have been no tolerably good outcomes in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
However, some would wonder if this is a good strategy, since the market has historically gone up more than it has gone down.
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When I was young and even more naive than I am today, I used to believe that if you did good work it would get recognition.
If the speech came across more like a wish list than an action plan with a good chance of making it past the House, that's because it was.
If this is a good-luck talisman, then Mr Scharping needs it now more than ever.
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