Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inflict another loss on the Cornhuskers, Roby will need to use his bench and hope that it responds as successfully as it did against UNH. Against the Wildcats, the Harvard bench was able to wear down the opposition, placing it in foul trouble...
...approach is far removed from standard business texts. A member of the Reformed Church in America and a graduate of the church-affiliated Hope College, he fondly cites St. Luke's characterization of a leader as "one who serves" and endorses a friend's observation that "leaders don't inflict pain; they bear pain." In one chapter he asks readers to consider what makes them weep...
...liquor bottles will carry a cigarette-style & warning label advising women that alcohol and pregnancy do not mix. But for women who are addicted to alcohol, the need to drink often overcomes caution and reason. Until better ways are found to identify and treat alcoholics, they will continue to inflict a devastating toll on their children...
Japanese timidity about interfering with domestic industries is perhaps most pronounced when it comes to fishing, which provides a staple of the country's diet. Japan is currently embroiled in a dispute with the U.S. and several Pacific nations about the charge that the Japanese squid fishermen inflict untold damage on marine life with their drift nets. Taiwan and South Korea also have extensive drift-net operations, but Japan's are the largest. And though U.S. fishermen, as the Japanese are quick to point out, use drift nets, they tend to be much smaller than the Asian variety...
...coming guerrilla offensive seems likely to prove a pivotal test of the government's military strength. U.S. officials doubt that the F.M.L.N. can inflict a major defeat. But a senior State Department official adds, "However real or illusory the chances for peace, they are now gone. Now the only alternative for El Salvador is more war." That is the last thing battle-weary Salvadorans want...