Word: hurtful
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Always, always, the pain and hurt of the city can break through and curdle the best intentions. Izhiman describes what it was like to cope with the aftermath of a suicide bombing. "We're trying to help the injured, and people are pointing at us, yelling, 'You're Arab! You did this to us, and what, now you're here to save lives?' It was like a knife in my heart." Adds Alian, "On the Israeli side, human lives are being lost, and the Arab side is demanding rights for statehood. I'm caught in between, angry and frustrated...
...amenable to discussion of abortion in every societal arena is also necessary. This impulse is no better than the most extreme conservatives who accuse abortion advocates of being murderers. It is exactly this sort of sensationalism that shows a lack of tolerance for belief. A bit of politeness never hurt anyone.For a woman, the experience of abortion is a time when she should turn to her confidants for comfort. Taking a pass on crying out from the rooftops does not mean she is being stigmatized. It means simply that, like so many things, an abortion is something...
...want venture capital, being a husband-and-wife team is not looked very kindly upon. And we didn't know if it was something that would help us or hurt us. We also had two other business partners, so we wanted to be seen as equals. But it was funny - AOL gave us the money and never knew. People would ask, "Are you married?" and we would say yes but implying that it was to somebody who wasn't in the room. In the end, we considered it a competitive advantage because we were working from the moment we were...
...warming up for his next disruptive act, hitting mobile operators where they really hurt: in the voice business. Polk is prodding consumers and businesses to make cheap Internet-based VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls through the Cloud's hot spots. VOIP has already eaten into the traditional fixed-line business. It's now poised to do the same thing to mobile operators, threatening to take a chunk of what London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says will be a $550 billion mobile-voice business by 2010. Polk volleyed in July, when he partnered with VOIP champion Skype...
...recent Saturday afternoon, on a desert road outside Los Angeles, a Land Rover ran into a Chevy Tahoe. Happily, nobody was hurt. That's because no one was in either...