Word: inflicter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deep slump could inflict heavy damage on overleveraged companies and troubled banks whose books are already filled with junk bonds and sour real estate loans. According to Veribanc, a Massachusetts-based firm that rates banks and S&Ls, bad loans at U.S. banks rose a sharp 7.5%, to $48.6 billion, in the first quarter of 1990. Overall, nearly 1,400 banks, or about 11% of the U.S. total, lost money in the first quarter. That represented an alarming jump of nearly 20% over the same period a year...
...broad economic downturn could inflict heavy damage on both banks and S&Ls. The threat of a such a slump was aggravated last week, when oil prices rose more than 10% in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Ironically, rising crude prices would reinvigorate the economies of oil-patch states where thrifts have been hit hardest, but the effect would probably be too little, too late to reduce the cost of the bailout by much...
Besides, whether we inflict our French on the concierge or not, many of our transactions will come down, in the end, to an antic game of charades. English may be the universal language, but it's still less universal than hands and eyes. So even as we become unwitting James Joyces -- coining neologisms by the minute -- when we essay a foreign language, we also become Marcel Marceaus: asking the way to the rest room with our eyebrows or sending back the squid with a paroxysm of mock pain. Ask a man in Tierra del Fuego to point...
...carried by the Mega Borg disperses and evaporates more readily than heavy crude. Of the 4 million gal. that escaped, much burned off in surface fires. By week's end the vessel was under control, although one tank was still leaking. The 30-mile-long slick seemed likely to inflict some -- but not major -- damage ashore. It had been a close call...
Eventually the time will come. When it does, how should lawmakers inflict the pain on their constituents without hurting themselves in the bargain? California's experience, and that of other states, suggest the following tactics...