Word: inflicting
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...climes can offer. The first words uttered by the relevant bureaucrat, Mama Gideon, order to close the door, lest any well-contained frostiness escape.Waiting is the name of the game in Tanzania. It’s tempting to say this is a petty torture civil servants know they can inflict on you with impunity, except that the waiting game happens in the private sector, too. If you want to make a deposit into your bank account, you’d better block off 45 minutes to wait in queue.Mama Gideon eventually honours me with her attention. My voice is soft...
...table," officials in both capitals say contingency plans for an air strike "are not under active consideration as an option now." Most experts say only that the U.S. has the air power and long-range fueling capability to carry out the multiple attacks that would be required to inflict serious damage on Iran's nuclear facilities--but they acknowledge that the U.S. military already has its hands full in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although some in the Middle East fear that Israel might attempt to repeat its 1981 solo raid on Iraq's incipient nuclear bomb, a senior Israeli intelligence officer...
...terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Considering the fact that there are laws restricting how much pain butchers (for lack of a better word for people who work in slaughterhouses) are allowed to subject animals to, there should be a legal limit to how much pain a doctor is allowed to inflict on a fetus. Section 2 of the Humane Slaughter Act, used to protect animals, states that a method of slaughter is deemed legally humane only if “all animals are rendered insensible to pain by a single blow or gunshot or an electrical chemical, or other means that...
...University’s academic mission and financial stability.This time, as students want Harvard to sever ties with companies that do business with the Sudanese government, Bok’s views could assume new importance.“We can all agree that an educational institution should not inflict harm on others merely to fatten its coffers,” Bok later wrote in a 1982 book on the social responsibilities of universities. “But it is a very different matter for trustees to use institutional funds to help redress an injustice in the outside world for which...
...bringing his daughter Star to her first-grade class three miles away-a 10-minute subway trip that took an hour on foot during the strike. "Yeah, we're happy to have them back," he says, "but they just chose to strike this time of year so they could inflict maximum damage. It's reprehensible...