They will be socially harmful if they result in marginalizing those most at risk from those exposures.
Mr. Comack said the new accusations, especially if they result in criminal complaints, could take MCI out of the running for many government contracts.
If they result in an unlikely peace treaty there is hope yet that this new and dangerous cold war will not emerge.
The CML said: "Measures seeking to protect consumers may not be in their wider interests if they result in exclusion from the market for large numbers of customers.
Movements made in an epileptic seizure are not acts, nor are movements made by a somnambulist before awakening, even if they result in the death of another person.
Such rebates can be justified on economic grounds if they are open to all customers and if they result in lower production costs.
They are even better if they result in donations to the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at Oxford University, for example, which was tracking Cecil when he was killed.
This debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party's embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don't matter if they result from tax cuts.
Mr. Almunia has said he prefers reaching settlements in cases that, even if they result in victories in court, may not result in effective remedies in the fast-moving technology sector.
Some economists also argue that private equity takeovers make good economic sense in the long term, even if they result in more layoffs in the short term, by making companies more efficient.
The confrontations in Najaf and Falluja pose a crucial test for the occupation forces here, and American forces are moving with what appears to be extreme caution between two difficult choices: Attacks on insurgents in either city, especially if they result in many dead and wounded, risk deepening anger and violence against the American occupation.
