Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the computer-drawn landscapes are a disappointing, amateurish touch, the changes in the Hoth creature positively hurt the scene. They ruin the once-excellent pacing and remove much of the suspense by making concrete the details about the creature's appearance and activities which were once left to our imagination. Unfortunately, nothing we see the creature do is as frightening as what we imagined it to be doing...
Councillor Timothy J. Toomey, who proposed a version of the transfer tax at the meeting, said he did not think that it would hurt Cambridge's residential market...
...Goths who were arrested in a thrill murder in Washington state cited a passion for Manson's music. But Manson takes no responsibility. Says he: "Parents should raise their kids to listen to an album and know the difference between reality and fantasy." True enough, but it wouldn't hurt if Manson lightened up his own scary, easily misunderstood message. After a Los Angeles concert, a fan was asked what he liked best. With most rock stars "the makeup comes off when they go home," he said. "With Manson it's real...
...People vs. Larry Flynt. Publicist: "I thought its reputation was inflated, and the backlash hurt. The media were interested in Courtney Love because she hadn't acted before, but she didn't do anything that Valerie Perrine or Candy Clark couldn't do on automatic pilot." Former studio head: "I didn't want to see a picture about Larry Flynt the same way I wouldn't want to see a picture about Hitler...
...employees or job applicants who have accused a company of racial discrimination. Otherwise, wrote Justice Clarence Thomas, who served at one time as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, employees who have suffered from discrimination will shy away from complaining to the Commission, fearing that the move could hurt their chances for future employment. The case centered on former Shell sales representative Charles Robinson, a black man who sued Shell for racial discrimination after being fired in 1991 and subsequently received a negative reference from his former employer. So Robinson sued again, claiming that company officials who gave...