Word: inflicter
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...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...
...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...