The direct damage will be limited.
It only covers "direct damage" the definition of which the report says is not clear.
For all that, the direct damage caused by algal blooms is probably more aesthetic than economic.
"This does direct damage to the propects for convening the international conference," Sergei Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister, said.
"Any direct damage to Microsoft as a result of these sanctions would be at most negligible," he said.
The direct damage has been estimated at $350m, but the indirect consequences will be much more than that.
That, in turn, would hurt Apple e-book sales but do very little direct damage to Apple's overall business.
In an interview, Georgia's prime minister, Lado Gurgenidze, said that the war had cost $1 billion, including direct damage to infrastructure and property.
What we face is terrorism in the most elementary sense: actions whose hoped-for impact is paralysis of the target rather than direct damage from the action itself.
It is important to note that direct damage by radiation to genetic material is small compared to damage done by reactive chemical species produced by radiation.
Some feel Mr. Spitzer can do less direct damage from the governor's mansion, and hate him as they might, big companies tend to go with a winner.
