Word: hurtfulness
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...Instead, worries are growing that a severe economic downturn in the U.S. and Europe could hurt export-driven Asian economies more than originally thought. Turmoil in Europe as governments scramble to cobble together their own bailout packages has convinced Asia that the contagion will spread far from Wall Street. "We felt pretty good that our economies are stronger," says Song Seng Wun, an economist at CIMB-GK Research in Singapore. "Problems seemed to be other people's problems." But recent events "have made us realize that we aren't entirely safe. It looks like the problem might be closer...
Betty McEntire, executive director of the American SIDS Institute, says the study is useful for underscoring the link between SIDS and rebreathing or overheating. "We know that increased carbon dioxide can hurt the baby's ability to arouse during sleep," says McEntire. "So you definitely want to prevent your baby from rebreathing and overheating...
Countering a charge that upper-class tax increases would hurt the economy, Joe Biden launched like a mad bus driver into a breathless verbal tour of his hometown, beginning with Union Street and a mom-and-pop restaurant, accelerating through all the stops—the current administration, taxes, Iraq, education, health care—taking a slight detour to note his (working-class, blue-collar) predilection for Home Depot, and wheezing back into the station with a promise of change from Obama. To viewers at home, Biden’s brief but intimate portrait seemed to say much more...
...take the loneliness and disillusionment felt by a young woman abandoned on the day of her wedding and that of an elderly woman realizing her long-time husband’s infidelity, and show how the feelings of these different characters are connected. They are both rooted in hurt and betrayal. Yet both characters decide to forgive and move on in a way that seems not naïve but mature, “because what did they have now except for each other, and what could you do if it was not even quite that?”When...
...halt because of the action brought by the Federation of Western India Cine Employees. "All shoots are off. The producers have not stuck to the terms of the agreement they signed with us 1 1/2 years back," says Dinesh Chaturvedi, general secretary of the federation. The timing will hurt films slated for release around the Hindu festival of Diwali; along with this week's Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, this period usually triggers some of Bollywood's biggest box-office releases of the year. The strike isn't expected to affect the distribution of films during the holiday...