Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What must have started as an appeal to street-wise pacifists, SOMBJAF thrives as hipper-than-thou funkadelia and constitutes the wittiest attack on U.S. arms policy since Tom Lehrer. A solid achievement when you recall that, at high voltages, Clinton has been known to inflict minor seismic damage. An amazing achievement considering how top-heavy the record might have sounded due to its immense cast of extras--30 background singers, 10 keyboard players and an array of drum-related, beat-box soloists...
...must take responsibility for their actions and present their names to the administration: "If they remain anonymous, you can't honor their opinions." But, in an institutional sense, the University is doing the same thing. By using a body that is responsible only to itself, the University manages to inflict punishment while refusing to accept responsibility. How can you honor their opinions...
...thrust of the story seems to be that an irrational local body, the Cambridge Historical Commission, threatens to unreasonably inflict additional restrictions on Harvard's ability to dispose as it pleases with its property, historic or otherwise. Specifically, the officials quoted are concerned that the Commission may week to control the interiors of Harvard's buildings, and the Commission's concerns are characterized as "quibbling," "irrelevant," "unrealistic," and "troublesome," and that "overregulation" and "abuse of process" may accompany efforts at preservation. I think they should know better...
First, let's review a few facts about the proposed Reagan cuts (hopefully put to permanent rest by a courageous Senate Budget Committee repudiation last week) would inflict on most of the nation's students and their families. The Adminstration proposes to do away with any federal and to students from families with an annual income of over $32,500. Using conservative, if not outdated, estimates that the average middle class household spends 24 percent of income on housing and 20 percent on food the family making such an income is left with $18,000 to pay its taxes...
...painfully slow because of the burdens of their past. "Absolutely everything they had taken for granted and counted on was removed," explains Richard Reoch of Amnesty International's London office. "It's a moral inversion where every human being you encounter has as his purpose to be cruel, to inflict pain, to lie or make you feel worthless." Victims suffer not only from severe injuries but also from survivor guilt, depression and a form of weary aimlessness born of disorientation, sleeplessness and recurrent nightmares. Fear of authorities is so deep that almost any kind of bureaucratic delay can panic...