Word: inflicter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought on the crime? The boys, it seemed, were taking revenge on the girls for their refusal to join them in a quarrel with school officials. The logic: it is all right to rape women -- to kill them even -- if they do not obey male authority. The ability to inflict violence is the proof of power. There is a "logic" too to Dahmer's crime. Raised in a culture that condoned racial prejudice and despised homosexuals, Dahmer appeared to believe he could preserve a place in mainstream society -- with all its furtive hopes of family, friends and future -- by destroying...
...merger will inflict sharp pain on employees and the troubled New York economy. Chemical and Manufacturers said they would eliminate $650 million a year in costs through a series of deep cutbacks. The banks plan to pare 6,200 jobs, or nearly 15% of their combined work force, and shut 70 of their 436 branches in the New York City area. Manufacturers Hanover, which financed construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, will see its name vanish into corporate history. Nonetheless, Manufacturers chairman John McGillicuddy, 60, will head the merged company until 1994, when Chemical chief Walter Shipley, 55, will succeed...
...cartel has also buried cocaine in toxic chemicals. In 1989 Customs agents and New York policemen found almost 5,000 kg of the drug inside 252 drums of powdered lye. No sane inspector would poke around in lye, which can inflict severe eye, skin and lung burns. Luckily, someone had tipped off the authorities...
...think this is a particularly difficult constitutional issue. The First Amendment is fairly unambiguous about restrictions on the media. And televised capital punishment is no more "cruel or unusual" than untelevised capital punishment. If anything, a television audience protects prisoners from angry executioners who might be tempted to inflict a little extra pain behind closed doors...
...start off tough on somebody," Phelps explains, "You've got to start easy and work up to it. It's a human desire to inflict pain and to want to receive it in a limited way. That's what makes bondage partners. People want to push the limits of normalcy...