Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard liquor contains no more alcohol than a 5-oz. glass of wine or a can of beer. The industry believes, probably correctly, that much of the public thinks liquor is unusually potent, while beer and wine, particularly white wine, are harmless. Says Cameron: "This ignorance has hurt the liquor industry in today's health- and diet- conscious society...
Tiger second baseman Mark Leavitt was hurt in practice two days ago and may not be able to play...
...left before the end of the reception to go to my French class, but I returned at 2:15 to watch as the police pushed their was through the crowd. Some protesters were badly hurt, apparently people were violently struck and thrown aside. Some sort of force was certainly, needed for Mr. Hoppenstein to escape, but more police should have been involved and there was no need for great violence. Another question is whether he should have left at all knowing that force would have to be used...
...between Nicaragua and Cuba, to be sure. Nicaragua (pop. 3 million) is smaller than Cuba (pop. 10 million) and has fewer resources and is a less developed economy. Unlike Cuba, Nicaragua still has a large private sector (at least 60% of its economy), which is likely to be severely hurt by the U.S. embargo. That is one reason, warns Mesa-Lago, why sanctions may serve to rally some Nicaraguans around the very government that Washington finds so repugnant...
...every author knows, people are reading lighter these days. A chapter can't be too short; a character can't be too thin or too rich. It doesn't hurt to have walk-on parts for real celebrities. Erich Segal is an able practitioner of glitz lit. As a classics scholar (he has taught at Harvard, Yale and Princeton), he understands that readers never tire of seeing the proud and the privileged lowered by fate. Love Story, his bittersweet ode to the Ivy League, established him as the preppies' Pindar. The Class is his bid to be their Homer...