The proponents have cited only a few examples of harm to the economy: construction projects being stalled or lenders trying to cancel loans or raise interest rates because of inadequate terrorism insurance.
Initiatives such as drug testing at festivals were examples of harm reduction winning out over moral panic, but they were exceptions to the general rule.
Some examples of harm reduction are widely accepted in societies worldwide, while others are much more controversial and are the subject of heated political and moral debate - for example: needle exchange programs, safe injection sites, and heroin maintenance programs.
Examples of harm were postoperative pericarditis, ileus after gastrostomy, candida stomatitis after treatment with antibiotics, infection in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, bleeding following placement of nasogastric feeding tube (harm category E) and nosocomial infection (gastroenteritis, pneumonia) for the paediatric patients.
Likewise, it is not an abstract discussion of consumers being unable to detect harm to the competitive process, but an example of undetected harm already occurring.
AMERICA'S subsidies to its cotton farmers have long been an egregious example of the harm that rich countries' subsidies inflict on the poor.
In an interview, Dr. Poje cited the explosion on April 25 on West 19th Street in Manhattan that caused dozens of serious injuries as an example of the harm that could be caused by uncontrolled chemical reactions.
Oddly, Urwand seems to think that "The House of Rothschild" was a disaster for the Jews, and he cites the fact that the Nazis used passages of it for their own propaganda as an example of the harm it did.
Mr. Serajuddin's story appears to offer an example of the harm to noncombatants that has been caused by the American-led military campaign, much of which has been concentrated in this remote, arid region 150 miles south of Kabul.
