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Patrick Clawson, a resident scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, is convinced that the Iraqis "will be in desperate straits by the end of 1991." There is general agreement among civilian experts that the sanctions will inflict severe damage in one to two years. But Clawson adds, "We're seeing a slow deterioration, not a collapse...
...however, inflict severe geoeconomic pain on Iraq by sustaining collective internatinal sanctions. If we turn too quickly to the strategies of the old order, we will never know the possibilities...
...forefront of furthering the causes of homeless people. Also, cuts are going to be made in the state government with or without the passage of CLT, which will probably hurt programs helping the homeless. I find no foundations for the endorsements except for the committee members to try and inflict their political opinions upon others...
...Senate versions of a bill designed to cut $500 billion from the deficit over five years. The final plan was bound to extract more revenues from the most affluent taxpayers than the bipartisan proposal that was dumped by the House two weeks ago. But it was also certain to inflict pain on middle-income earners, who were already outraged at the lawmakers' willingness to tax them more heavily than the wealthiest Americans...
...Congress have forgotten the moment during the surtax fight when a crowd of Chicago retirees mobbed the car of Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. To avoid being mobbed in the same way on Election Day, Congress has declined to inflict much pain on its older constituents. As for children -- they don't vote...