Word: inflicter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal laws require doctors to begin treatment of all babies except those who would clearly not benefit. But no regulations guide a physician's decision to stop treatment. This has become a pressing issue because the very technology that can save infants often inflicts profound ; handicaps, such as blindness, cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders. Among the effects of erring on the side of life, say the authors: "We save some who would otherwise have died, we do immediate harm to and inflict long- term suffering on many who survive, and we expend an enormous amount of money on neonatal...
Millions of Americans swear by ibuprofen for relief from the aches and pains of arthritis, menstrual cramps and other ailments. But like many other pain killers, ibuprofen, sold under such brand names as Advil and Medipren, can sometimes inflict pain. According to a report in the current Annals of Internal Medicine, the medication could cause kidney failure in about 1% of the people...
They grow up to 2 in. long and 1 in. thick. Their piercing mandibles can inflict painful bites. They have an insatiable appetite for bushes, bark, gardens and crops. And now, in the worst outbreak since the 1930s, a huge army ; of these mini-monsters is hatching in a 700,000-acre swath of northern Nevada and poised for an expected May Day assault on anything chewable in its path...
...appeal to environmentalists, the notion of pitting bugs against drugs may never be hatched. Bolivia and Peru object that the insects could inflict damage on citrus and other legal crops. Said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "We are not undertaking any biological war. Neither troops nor caterpillars will go in without prior request and consultation...
There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words--those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace...such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value...that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly out-weighed by the social interest in order and morality...