Word: hurts
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...years, bringing the rate to $4.55 by 1991. Supporters of the legislation contend that workers need the boost to keep up with rising prices, since the minimum wage has lost 22% of its purchasing power since the last increase in 1981. Opponents, including business lobbyists, believe the hike will hurt labor-intensive enterprises and set off an inflationary spiral...
Ohio Senator John Glenn, the early favorite, has not held up well under scrutiny. With an uninspiring Senate record, $2.4 million in unpaid 1984 campaign debts and less charisma than Dukakis, his appeal to the risk-averse Dukakis may be simply that the bland ex-astronaut could not hurt him, and he could help him win Ohio. Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton emerged as a foreign policy heavyweight and Mr. Integrity during the Iran-contra hearings. A lively presence Hamilton has never been, and he may not even be able to deliver his traditionally Republican home state...
...also does not hurt that the diminutive ( 5 ft. 2 in.) Lipsig can handle jurors' emotions with the finesse of a symphony conductor. The faces in the jury box registered grief and shock during Lipsig's opening statement in Chernow's suit as the maestro described the doctor's tragic demise: picked up by a front fender, smashed into a "shatterproof" windshield, to "land with a thud on the roadway" with "52 bone fractures." After just one day of trial, the city threw in the towel and settled for an undisclosed amount. "Trying a case against him was like playing...
...whose "deep pockets" are filled with taxpayer dollars. Says Blair Childs, executive director of the American Tort Reform Association, a lobby group in Washington: "Harry Lipsig typifies the system where no one wins but the likes of Harry Lipsig. A few others win big with him. But society is hurt...
SOME Texans understand the strategic move made by Dukakis, and the fact that Jackson may hurt the ticket. "I think Dukakis made a pretty good decision," Rice student David Jackson said. "He has to get the conservative Democratic vote also. Besides Jackson has too many negatives. All he would do is hurt the Democrats' chances in November...