Word: hurts
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...that it provided a tremendous incentive for unscrupulous institutions to cheat. High schools were under pressure to give academically deficient athletes a C average so they would be eligible for athletic scholarships. Dishonest colleges could make partial qualifiers eligible by enrolling them in gut courses. So Proposition 48 only hurt the schools that were honest enough not to take advantage...
PETA opposes all animal experimentation and suggests the use of human volunteers, instead. If animal experimentation were eliminated and scientific research were hurt as a consequence, the probable increase in human suffering and death would not be a big problem for PETA. "We don't have a right to exploit animals under some notion of 'human good," said Burnett...
Pesetsky, who was not seriously hurt, said he and two other photographers had been taken pictures from what he thought was a safe distance when the violence reached...
...kind of deal that Trump now calls "my favorite art form." An unknown and unwealthy hustler of 30, he had to persuade some bankers to lend him $80 million (he did) and some politicians to give him a $120 million tax abatement (he did). It did not hurt that Fred Trump was a regular contributor to the Brooklyn Democratic machine, or that Governor Hugh Carey and Mayor Abe Beame both happened to be Brooklyn Democrats, or that Trump put Carey's chief fund raiser on his payroll. Young Trump also had to find an architect to build a reflecting glass...
...trade battle escalates, it will hurt other agricultural producers, from dairy farmers in Denmark to nut growers in California's Central Valley. Trade officials on both continents are worried that the transatlantic range war has got out of hand, but so far no one is budging on the beef issue. The E.C. insists that no compromise is possible unless the U.S. accepts the hormone ban. And from the St. Paul stockyards to the vast feedlots of the Southwest, them's fightin' words...