Word: inflicter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still gnawing at the community's conscience are the many missed signals of the danger that was lurking in Robert. "The Dreesmans were very private people who didn't inflict their problems on friends," says Midge Andreasen, wife of a state-supreme-court justice and a close friend of Marilyn's. "Some of us knew about the black hole of hatred in Robert. We should have involved ourselves more with the family...
...campaign were inflated as much as 50%. Though Schwarzkopf based his information on firsthand pilot reports as well as satellite photos, the Beltway desk jockeys were convinced that Iraqi tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery were in far better shape than field commanders claimed and could inflict great damage in ground combat. Bush Administration officials were so irritated by the continuing bureaucratic controversy that they reprimanded CIA chief William Webster at a White House session for letting his people publicly undermine Schwarzkopf's figures...
Because of the huge number of men and weapons Saddam poured into Kuwait, many military observers expected him to fight more effectively and inflict many more casualties than he did. As Schwarzkopf recounted at his wrap-up briefing, Iraqi combat forces outnumbered the coalition's 2 to 1 on the battlefield. In addition, the Iraqis had many more tanks and artillery pieces and had carefully dug them...
...presented her, without interrupting. But then, for a good hour, she allowed no one to interrupt her monologue, in which she outlined in a most condensed way a position that was gaining greater momentum: not to limit things to a withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait but to inflict a devastating blow at Iraq, "to break the back" of Saddam and destroy the entire military, and perhaps industrial, potential of that country...
...process of putting Kuwait back together again commence. The extent of that task will not be clear , until the war is over and the damage can be surveyed. A lot depends on how much more fighting takes place, and how much more damage the Iraqis choose to inflict on the country as they exit. But the Kuwaiti government-in-exile has hired the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to lead the cleanup and repair operation for the first 90 days. Companies in several allied countries are already fighting for pieces of the lucrative construction work that lies ahead. Estimates...