Word: inflicter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labor party, promised to increase public services by raising tax rates on the wealthy and to undo the Conservatives small market-oriented reforms in the National Health service. Major, on the other hand, told voters that Labor's proposed tax increase would inflict further damage on the economy and defended his government's health policies...
...round of Super Tuesday contests, Paul Tsongas had spent only half a day in Illinois. But the latest polls show him within striking distance of Clinton, and his strength is not entirely inexplicable. As elsewhere, Tsongas benefits from the perception that he is a truth teller willing to inflict pain on a nation ready for castor oil. While the disadvantaged reject his message, it resonates among better-educated, higher-income whites -- the very Democrats most likely to vote on March 17. Around Chicago, Tsongas is also doing well among the white ethnics who voted for Reagan and Bush, not because...
...District of Columbia. Residents voted 77% to 23% to hold makers of assault weapons responsible for the injuries those arms inflict...
Last week, the Crusaders sternly thrashed Pennsylvania, 45-0. In fact, one might expect that Holy Cross could inflict a similar beating on its other Ivy opponents...
...political dogma has been so discredited that they are losing members and morale. The Japanese Red Army, which launched a series of bloody attacks in the 1970s, is down to 20 members. Germany's Red Army Faction is a similar example, though its small remaining core group can still inflict serious pain. R.A.F. assassins have killed two leading German financiers since December...