Word: hurtfulness
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...Well, it's been interesting for me. You would think that as other magazines started to explore some of that, it might hurt us. But we are by far the newsstand leader now, in a bigger way than we've ever been. Our nearest competitor, Glamour, is now over a million copies less than us on the newsstand. Maybe it's just because it's so much part of our mission. Sometimes when you try to do something that really falls into somebody else's territory, it's very hard for them...
...group’s proposal has traditionally been resisted by some doctors and insurers, who fear that such openness could hurt them in court...
...forces on takeoff feel kind of like a bear sitting on your chest. He had trouble sleeping that first night, when you are essentially floating in your bed. The hardest part of his job was having to take blood from his fellow astronauts. "He was afraid he would hurt somebody while he was drawing blood," one friend and fellow pilot says. They had been serving together on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise when McCool got word he had been accepted by NASA. "I know he struggled with that decision, and I know that it was a family decision," he says...
...strong yuan will make goods produced in China more expensive. So it will hurt companies like Target, which buys a lot of its goods there and may have to raise prices for the U.S. consumer. But it will help U.S.-based exporters by making their goods more affordable abroad. A stronger yuan should help bring China and U.S. trade into better balance and soothe tensions...
...pleasure. The net effect on some sectors will be positive. China's automakers, for example, rely heavily on parts made abroad and export few cars. The stronger yuan will effectively lower their costs by reducing their outlay for tires and other imported components. Meanwhile, firms that have been hurt by the rising price of oil, such as airlines, will also get relief: oil is priced in dollars, so companies earning in yuan will see their energy costs decline by 2.1%. In fact, China's macroeconomic landscape is expected to remain virtually unchanged by this initial revaluation. Overall growth, which reached...