31.   Opponents charged the cuts would hurt senior citizens and the poor.

32.   OPEC has rejected the idea that a production cut now would hurt the economies of importing nations.

33.   Post-Cold War spending cuts have hurt the defense industry, forcing many Pentagon contractors to expand, cut costs and improve their chances of winning work.

34.   Premature cuts can only hurt the poor.

35.   Recent budget cuts have hurt service.

36.   Some were defense contractors hurt by cuts in military spending and looking for a new source of income.

37.   Such a cut would hurt, in relation to the Wall Street scale of things.

38.   The company could be hurt by cuts in federal spending on Medicare.

39.   The cuts could seriously hurt the economy by denying employers, especially small businesses, access to competent workers.

40.   The cuts have especially hurt the construction, real estate and transportation industries, which rely heavily on government contracts.