Word: inflicter
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...message has produced a new debate over the costs and benefits of free trade. Sadly, most of the Republican establishment has dismissed Buchanan's views as economic nonsense without realizing that his criticisms of current trade policy do have some basis in fact. Certainly, full-blown protectionism would inflict great harm on the American economy. But that does not necessarily imply that free trade is the answer. Rather, the United States should discard the obsolete notion that free trade is the best alternative in every case and instead selectively engage in protectionist practices both to force other nations to lower...
...closeted with I.R.A. commanders in an effort to persuade them to declare a new cease-fire. He failed. The I.R.A. leadership, Adams told TIME, "reiterated, very emotionally, their commitment to continue their armed campaign as long as it was necessary. As they see it, the British had sought to inflict a defeat upon them in peace that they were unable to achieve...
Pellett said while the sanctions are intended to "change a country's behavior by inflicting or threatening to inflict pain," they have only succeeded in reducing food production and leading to poor hygiene among children...
...heavy weapons from around Sarajevo, nato escalated its military campaign, doubling its target list and extending the scope of the air war across Bosnia. As poor weather frustrated bombing efforts and Serb resistance appeared to be holding firm, a nato official admitted, "It might take a longer campaign to inflict significant damage...This may be a question of lasting attrition, grinding them down rather than overwhelming them with a series of spectacular strikes in a couple of days...
...reason for the change of heart was the allegation, stemming from a Harvard Magazine article he wrote in in their memory, believe that that horror gives them the right to inflict horror on others," he wrote. "Winternitz's account of the Shin Bet, the Israeli secret police, is eerily similar to the stories of the Nazi Gestapo... [with] arbitrary arrests in the middle of the night, imprisonment without trial, beatings, refined tortures, murder...