Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...however, inflict severe geoeconomic pain on Iraq by sustaining collective internatinal sanctions. If we turn too quickly to the strategies of the old order, we will never know the possibilities...
...forefront of furthering the causes of homeless people. Also, cuts are going to be made in the state government with or without the passage of CLT, which will probably hurt programs helping the homeless. I find no foundations for the endorsements except for the committee members to try and inflict their political opinions upon others...
...their endless struggle to please and appease special interests and large voter blocs, most of the 535 members of Congress have succeeded mainly in diminishing themselves. Their fundamental obligation to order the nation's finances has given way to the politician's primal instinct: inflict no pain; ruffle no feathers; get re-elected...
...Senate versions of a bill designed to cut $500 billion from the deficit over five years. The final plan was bound to extract more revenues from the most affluent taxpayers than the bipartisan proposal that was dumped by the House two weeks ago. But it was also certain to inflict pain on middle-income earners, who were already outraged at the lawmakers' willingness to tax them more heavily than the wealthiest Americans...
...Congress have forgotten the moment during the surtax fight when a crowd of Chicago retirees mobbed the car of Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. To avoid being mobbed in the same way on Election Day, Congress has declined to inflict much pain on its older constituents. As for children -- they don't vote...