Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took up the same theme, though Spock's book is clear about setting both standards and expectations for children. Says Spock: "If parents are self-assured and nonhostile, they can be quite strict in such things as expecting more formal manners, prompt obedience and more courtesies. It doesn't hurt children at all to have cooperation expected of them...
...after his divorce, Goetz moved to New York City to start his own small business. He specialized in calibrating sophisticated electronic equipment to precise manufacturing standards. The minute attention to detail, the quest for accuracy, seemed to suit him. "Machines don't hurt you," he has sometimes said. He ran the business out of his own spartan, meticulous apartment, where he stored the equipment acquired from suppliers all over the city. In order to bid on bargains at auctions and sales, Goetz often carried several thousand dollars in cash with...
...criminals has long been a sore point with victims of crime, who complain that no such solicitude has been extended to them. Today organizations supporting victims' rights are sprouting up across the country. More than 400 victims advocacy groups have been set up to advise those who have been hurt by crime and to seek legislation to help them. In most states victims, like other witnesses, are frequently barred from the courtroom to prevent their testimony from being influenced by the proceedings. This "witness sequestration" rule, says Florida State Representative Dexter Lehtinen, means that "the defendant's family...
...Goetz-like urge to attack an assailant as self- defeating. A new study done for the Justice Department's National Institute of Justice suggests that passive resistance is a more effective tactic than is a counterattack. The study found that the victim is far more likely to get hurt when attempting to subdue the aggressor, particularly one with a knife or gun. The kind of resistance that has the best chance of success, explains Richard Block, a sociologist at Loyola University of Chicago, who conducted the study, is to attract the attention of possible rescuers or to try to flee...
...importation of more cars from Japan would probably raise the U.S. trade deficit and could hurt the dollar, which was already sliding rapidly last week. The British pound, worth just over $1.03 on Feb. 26, fetched $1.24 on Friday. In all, the dollar has lost 6% of its value against the currencies of major U.S. trading partners in the past three weeks. "It's never been as wild as this," says Christine Patton, a senior vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust who runs that bank's foreign exchange operations...