Word: hurtfulness
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...Kevin Durant: That really hurt the series. Without them they can't win. But rules are rules-if I made a rule up that said they can't come off the bench, they can't come off the bench. They are just teaching them discipline...
...Kevin Durant: I didn't know that I was going to go for a year. Let's get that out of the way first. If a kid comes out and says, "I'm going to be here for a year," I think it does hurt. It will hurt him in the classroom. It will hurt the team as well, because he will just be focusing on going...
...well-placed friends in the U.S., speaks fluent English and has been a visiting professor at Harvard University's School of Public Health. The rift with Washington is truly over, he says: "We are close allies, we are friends, and it must be so." He believes the schism has hurt France, marginalizing it in key areas. "We have to offer a new perspective in the Middle East," says Kouchner, who advocates bolstering support for moderate Muslims and relieving economic misery among Palestinians, which he says provokes extremism. "It is absolutely impossible to offer such a perspective without the Americans...
...political pressure bearing down on him. "He rattles people's cages," says Holbrooke. "It is what he has always done." And he has paid a price. When Socialist leader François Hollande dismissed Kouchner from the party for joining Sarkozy's Cabinet, Kouchner admits he was hurt. But he's convinced the party needs a drastic overhaul that "will take years." Nearing retirement, he was unwilling to wait that long...
...proposed revisions could hurt the U.S. venture-capital industry, which helps small companies get big and is the envy of the world. Private-equity firms--which buy companies with mostly borrowed money, fix them up or pare them down, then sell them--are more controversial but have perhaps made corporate America more efficient and competitive. Ramping up taxes on these guys could lead to unpleasant consequences: think about the next Google going unfunded because money was diverted to pay taxes. Losing such opportunities might far outweigh the few billion dollars in annual revenue the tax change would bring...