Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reclining chair, Joy suffered irreversible brain damage. Two weeks ago, after an evening visit with his daughter, Griffith fired two .32- cal. bullets into the child's heart, killing her. Griffith, who faces a first- degree murder charge, said last week, "I didn't want to see her hurt anymore. She couldn't eat, she couldn't talk." Said Dade County Detective Rex Remley: "We're going by the law on this thing. The law says it is first- degree murder...
...eight weeks the cicada nymphs hatch and burrow down into the ground to reach the tree roots, on which they will feed and grow slowly for the next 13 years. The periodic cicadas do not kill trees in their feeding, and at no point in their lives do they hurt garden vegetables or flowering plants, although their egg laying can damage young trees. They are bugs of such innocence and beauty and specialness that their appearance, one would think, would be regarded with interest and appreciation, like that of a comet or a rare bird...
...boon for employers and consumers. Low-cost labor allows businesses to be competitive while earning healthy profits, and some of the benefit is passed along to consumers in the form of lower prices. But illegal immigrants may also compete with unskilled Americans for many jobs. "Some people are hurt by illegal aliens, and some benefit," says Weintraub...
...urban areas, at least 65 Americans or legal aliens lose out. David North, an expert on immigration with the New TransCentury Foundation in Washington, agrees. Says he: "Illegal aliens are good for the rich and hard on the poor. They help a narrow and powerful band of interests and hurt a large and silent population...
...come so far so often in the legislative process with those concerned with it having so little idea of its potential effects. No one can say for sure whether immigration reform can be made to work, what it might cost and, most important, whether it would ultimately help or hurt the country. In that informational vacuum, politicians, businessmen, labor leaders, minority representatives and social scientists have taken positions on all sides of the issue. President Reagan is maintaining a discreet profile, hoping only for a policy that is "fair and nondiscriminatory...