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