Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jobs in industry in 1954, and the U.S. Government estimates that the number will jump 200% by 1959. But this will tap only a fraction of the potential manpower. Many businessmen are frankly reluctant to hire the handicapped because they fear that such workers are prone to injury, will hurt themselves on the job and thus boost insurance compensation rates. The fears are largely groundless. Some state compensation laws make a company responsible for a worker's total disability, regardless of his previous injury. However, 42 states now have "second injury" funds which protect employers against paying total disability...
...many products manufactured by her allies. Consequently, despite forty billion dollars spent in aid, these countries can neither develop industrially nor purchase needed American products. The result is often a lower standard of living and resentment of "Yankee imperialism." Besides weakening Western defense in general, high tariffs have hurt American exporters in particular, since some foreign markets have closed, either in retaliation or of necessity. Paul Hoffman has estimated that this amounts to a five billion dollar cut-back in American exports annually...
Violence came last week to the usually stolid city of Brussels (pop. 960,000). Tens of thousands of demonstrators fought with police, some 80 were hurt, 1,000 arrested. It was the worst civil disorder since the Leopoldist riots of 1950, which preceded the abdication of King Leopold. At that time Belgium's powerful Roman Catholics were in power, and the Socialists did the rioting. This time the tables were turned, and the Catholics were the attackers...
...University of Wisconsin and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research would not attend a scheduled symposium on the "molecular basis of enzyme action." Reason: Schmitz's veto had "placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." The big boycott hit the University of Washington where it hurt-right in its pride over its new, $12 million medical school. Said President Schmitz in his own defense: "I cannot emphasize too strongly that [the ban on Oppenheimer] was not a whimsical or a capricious decision." It had nothing to do with academic freedom, he insisted, but was based...
...used to have a very good sale on our bulldog edition, but with TV, the rise in subway fares, plus the rise in our own circulation price, our paper sales were hurt. Sunday night, for instance, is very dead. Then, too, the policy of the paper changed. Originally, it was written for the man in the street, but it became a conservative Republican paper. I could only sell the product they printed." To Annenberg, who owns "substantial" stock in the Chicago Tribune-New York News company (valued at $42,000 a share), the matter was far from settled...