Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats zeroed in on another factor: the U.S. trade deficit, which hit a record $148.5 billion last year and is running even higher in 1986. Their purpose seems to be to build support for import-limiting legislation. But the trade deficit has hurt farmers, who have lost foreign markets, and smokestack industries, beset by import competition, far more than service and high-tech businesses...
...brother would say, 'You can't have none of this. You've got a game tomorrow. You've got to be at your best. You've got a future.' Twenty years ago Len Bias would not have been allowed near anything that could hurt him. That guy would have said, 'No. You've been drafted by the Boston Celtics. You've got a future. You can't have any coke.' Today that same guy took Bias by the hand and led him to his grave...
...precise impact on the economy and even individual businesses remains uncertain at this point. "The tax code is so complicated and interacts with so many aspects of the economy that no one can really figure out what investments will be helped or hurt," says Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution...
...long run Jackson is likely to wield more clout. One reason: he can make a credible threat of mounting a disruptive third-party candidacy should he fail to swing the Democrats to the left. Robertson, 56, insists, "I work at coalitions. I wouldn't dream of doing anything to hurt the Republican Party...
...dramatists -- the likes of Thornton Wilder, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and the early Edward Albee -- only Arthur Miller has consistently reached out beyond domestic grief to comment on public life. For that aspiration, Miller has often been rebuked and advised to return to family melodrama. Probably no rejection hurt more than the fate of his The American Clock, a poignant panorama of what the 1930s did to the country's psyche; it opened on Broadway in November 1980 and lasted barely two weeks. Miller has not brought a new play there since...