Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ready to prevent the Air Force from paying the space agency a scheduled fee of $566 million for military space launches that have now been put on indefinite hold. Both NASA Administrator James Fletcher and Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge hope to block this cut, which Fletcher contends would inflict "additional injury" on the U.S. space program...
...Socialists treated the controversy gingerly. Only recently did Steyrer begin to allude openly to the damage a Waldheim victory could inflict on the country's reputation. WITH STEYRER, ALL OF AUSTRIA WINS proclaimed one campaign poster. Bruno Kreisky, the Socialist ex-Chancellor, last week appealed to his countrymen not to vote for Waldheim. Asked Kreisky: "Didn't we always have decent Presidents whom we could show in public...
...continually inflict death upon others, people who are often unknown, innocent people, people not yet born," the Pope said...
...they have ever represented a legitimate rebellion against the Nicaraguan government, it is clear now that the Contras are entirely a creation of U.S. foreign policy--dependent on their paymaster for their limited ability to inflict malicious harm on the Nicaraguan people...
...glut by cutting back production. But most rivals have refused. If no agreement is reached, says De Vries, "you could see oil prices go down very, very substantially, to the low teens and below that." The big question is how much economic pain the kingdom is willing to inflict on its rivals. "I don't think Saudi Arabia will want to be the hardliner and bring down countries and companies and banks," said De Vries...