The first is that it will jack up inflation and so do more harm than good.

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So Fannie and Freddie may be doing more harm than good.

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In many older men, the cancer progresses so slowly that surgery and other treatments may cause more harm than good.

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So the idea that the festive season does more harm to marriage than good does not seem proven.

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He says that children's videogame play in general ends up doing more harm than good--primarily because so many children are allowed to play unchecked, displacing school work, sports, reading and family time.

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While many may want to condemn these proposed technologies as nefarious military weapons likely to do more harm than good, it would be foolish to do so without first considering the commercial applications likely to flow from these technologies.

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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.

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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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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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