Raising taxes is about killing jobs and hurting small businesses and making things worse.
Heavy use and power outages in the Northeast were stressing the network and hurting call quality.
Meanwhile, the euro-zone debt crisis lurches from one summit to the next, still unresolved, and hurting economic growth.
Is that fracturing making your job less efficient and hurting your margins?
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Retailers argu that the money collected per transaction, which currently has no cap and averages about 44 cents, were excessive and hurting consumers.
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Proponents say that the current retirement plans cannot go on indefinitely as the costs are crippling the military and hurting the federal deficit.
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Mutual funds should be freed from a morass of excessive regulation and unfair taxation that is costing small investors and hurting the industry.
Retailers argued that the money collected by banks per swipe, which had has no cap and averaged about 44 cents, were excessive and hurting consumers.
If the home industry makes too much, it will depress the price of its exports on world markets, damaging the country's terms of trade, and hurting workers.
On their previous visit, the Knicks fell behind by 22 in the first half and lost Anthony, who came up limping after tripping and hurting his knee.
This creates the risk of a vicious circle in which any fall in the stockmarket will push up personal savings, depressing profits and hurting the stockmarket further.
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You have to be sure that you're not being counterproductive and hurting yourself by putting too much pressure on yourself to try to perform well, not playing within yourself.
We do see a bewildering array of new platforms launching this year and partly that surge will result in rivals harming and hurting each other rather than focusing on the big players.
One of the few incidents of note saw unlucky home striker Dave Kitson, who has still to score for Stoke, replaced by Richard Cresswell after falling awkwardly in the six-yard box and hurting his knee.
Contrary to Mr Wood's assertions, the evidence so far suggests that they are eating into workers' real earnings, and hurting companies' profit margins at home (as they have difficulty passing on higher costs).
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The question is why has Tom taken such an aggressive, take-no prisoners stance that will, if pursued, redound negatively for everyone, not least himself, and hurting the company about which he professes to care so much?
"If the child is horrendously disruptive -- self-injury and hurting themselves -- yes, use medication in young children, " said Dr. Mani Pavuluri, director of the Pediatric Brain Research and Intervention Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Anticipating the potential backlash of stellar profits amid a stalling recovery and a hurting consumer, the company tried to distance itself from oil and gas prices, according to AP.
Stagnant wages are holding back consumer spending and thus hurting the demand side of the economy.
The knock-on effect is forcing their currencies up against the dollar and the euro, hurting exports and creating property bubbles.
Ellenberger (29-6) made short work of Marquardt (35-12-2), knocking him down with a left-right and then hurting him with another.
Families and businesses are still hurting, and too many who want to work are not able to find a job.
The BPI's annual Digital Music Report has been charting the changes in its industry for a while - but the latest edition seems to show that 2012 was the year when the digital revolution finally began to start paying and stop hurting.
Dish has decided not to increase prices for its customers for a while, and that is actually hurting the company and hitting both its revenues as well as margins.
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If left unabated, some scientists say climate change could elevate sea levels (meaning more flooding, fewer beaches and less land) and alter weather patterns (hurting agriculture and producing more extreme weather events), among other repercussions.
Price wars in the UK and elsewhere are hurting the bottom line as well, and like other operators Vodafone has seen its average revenues per subscriber fall by more than half during the past four years.
Penney stores, on the other hand, are striving to attract customers, and sales are souring, hurting both the top and bottom lines of the company.
Jerry fights and fights, telling Rod that his attitude is hurting him and that people think the only thing he cares about is money.
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He adds that a mix shift to mobile and international is hurting growth in the medium term.
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