Word: hurtfulness
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...there are a few differences. First, Jordan's gambling problems never quite percolated into the mainstream the way this scandal has. Second, the tabloid media and gossip machine are much more powerful today than they were then. Third, extramarital affairs are uniquely damaging - in particular, I think this will hurt his popularity with women. Fourth, he's a Stanford-educated golfer who supposedly did everything right. His image was premised on class, elegance, aspiration. He took flak just for being seen swearing on the course. I think this is going to be damaging, at least initially. (See pictures of Tiger...
...still the preserve of whites, élites and the affluent. Tiger changed that, broadened the appeal of the game and brought it to a mass audience. But he did so playing by the same corporate, country-club rules. And so I think any personal transgression was going to hurt him more than it would hurt an Ali or a Jordan. What's amazing, to some extent, is that it's taken this long for him to slip. (Watch TIME's video "Nerd vs. Tiger: Guess Who Wins...
...seen how the Spanish public will take to the idea of removing the miniature action figures from their kids' Happy Meals. Ana's parents say they aren't worried about their daughter's weight. "We eat well at home, and an occasional treat isn't going to hurt her," says her mother Tonia. In fact, they had also eaten lunch at McDonald's the previous day. "She really loved the toy saber," Marco says...
...credit-card use is down, which is good--sort of. Yet keep in mind that the Pilgrims were barely eking out a living, surviving in squalor. They had no access to credit. Thrift is a great virtue, but a little mindless spending this season couldn't hurt...
Other than complain, there's little either can do to halt this integration. Punitive tariffs backfire. The Obama Administration's 35% tariff on imports of Chinese tires potentially hurt Goodyear's operations in Ohio because the company had developed a cost structure that uses production in China as a way to maintain its U.S. operations. China threatened to retaliate with tariffs on U.S. chicken parts. If tires and chicken parts are the worst of it, so much for trade wars...