Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighter-bomber and C-130 gunship sorties over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Once these sorties cease, so will U.S. air losses. With further troop withdrawals in 1973, the U.S. may lose no more than a couple of men a month on the average, though enemy terrorists could well inflict heavy casualties in isolated attacks...
...critics had revived all of the specters of environmental damage that a fleet of SSTs might inflict, including a frightening and seemingly exaggerated new emphasis on the increased hazards of skin cancer...
...SECOND argument in favor of the RUS coed plan is that the higher ratios of men to women necessary for complete coeducation inflict too great a hardship on the women involved. Surely no one would deny that a 1-1 or 2-1 ratio is preferable for all concerned-and especially the women-to higher ratios. But how much preferred is it? Is the difference between 2-1 and 4-1 for the people in coed Houses greater than the difference between 4-1 and 1-0 for those stuck in Houses which can't go coed in order...
...from Mao's Phase II (small-unit guerrilla war) to Phase III (large-unit warfare). One objective would be to hit the Saigon regime at a time when the U.S. was able to throw few troops to its support. The other objective, in this hypothesis, would be to inflict a mortal political wound on Nixon by means of Tet-style attacks, thus paving the way for the election of a new President inclined to a hastier exit from South Viet...
Even in Marshall McLuhan's "global village," world opinion remains a force of unpredictable strength. Worldwide indignation did nothing to stop the savagery inflicted on the Biafrans, nor could it persuade the terrorists in Canada to spare the life of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte (whose three alleged kidnapers were arrested last week outside Montreal). It has had no leverage at all on Hanoi, which has rejected every U.S. proposal for an exchange of P.O.W.s, and continues to hold more than 300 Americans in its prison camps. Yet last week, in two cases that created shock waves throughout...