Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happy to get a chance to play, obviously, but especially with Benny, I hated to see him get hurt,' one Kirkland House resident says of the other, but the junior adds, "I feel like I'm a lot better than I was three weeks...
...Mondale plans to concentrate on winning back traditionally Democratic voters, particularly in the industrial Midwest, in an attempt to keep Reagan from sweeping away Democratic Congressmen and state officials. Says a Mondale strategist: "He is determined that his candidacy not be used by the Republicans as a weapon to hurt the Democratic Party...
Department-store officials do not expect Nipon's tax problems to hurt sales of his popular dresses. Observed Sonia Adler, editor of Washington Dossier, a monthly society magazine: "Most people who buy his clothes are not going to read about his tax problems in the papers." Nancy Reagan, however, is no longer among his customers. According to Sheila Tate, the First Lady's press secretary, "She had some Nipon outfits in her wardrobe back in the first year of the Administration, and she wore some of his clothes during the '80 campaign because they are easy...
...charge often leveled at Reaganomics is that it has hurt the poor by cutting back social programs, including welfare and food stamps. In Losing Ground (Basic Books; $23.95), Murray unabashedly asserts that slashing social spending is the greatest favor the Government can bestow upon the poor. Federal welfare programs, he concludes, perpetuate poverty rather than cure...
Losing Ground makes the case that welfare programs hurt the poor by undermining their incentive to work and thus climb out of poverty. People will be reluctant to accept low-paying jobs, Murray maintains, if they can survive almost as well on Government handouts. "We tried to provide more for the poor," he writes, "and produced more poor instead...