Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...though, there is much danger in all this complacency. Sources from the opinion pages of The Crimson to annual mental health survey testify: Students here are often playing hurt. They see themselves as being held to a standard they can never truly meet, in classrooms, clubs and conversation—yet onward they plunge. The Harvard ideal, which administrators and tabletop fliers insist is unreal, means staying functional with rioting nerves, staying charming with crippling doubts, working though every impulse insists on slowing down. Just as the Ad Board sentences, so do its little disciples judge and admonish, themselves...
...Yansane is hurt after Andrew Berry showed why he's Andrew Berry and saved the game for Harvard in the endzone...
...Employers' lobby Business Europe added the chorus of grumbles, saying that "the heavy extra costs that are planned will hurt international competitiveness, especially for energy-intensive industries, and also hurt employment in those and associated industries...
...Everest out of the anthill of Obama's association - passing, at best - with the former terrorist William Ayers. Those gambits, plus McCain's monumentally dreadful selection of a running mate unqualified for the presidency, have defined the Republican's campaign. According to the polls, the stunts and attacks have hurt more than they have helped, which is a wonderful thing: a very worried public is taking this election very seriously...
...When moderator Bob Schieffer encouraged the two men to air their grievances against each other, all the drama hung around Obama the Imperturbable. "I think the American people are less interested in our hurt feelings," Obama said. "I don't mind being attacked for the next three weeks. What we can't afford is four more years of the same failed economic policies...