Word: inflicting
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Three people seduce, wound and demolish one another, all in the name of love. Their poor posturings and deceits, their volatile cartridges of passion, inflict unhealing wounds. The Mother and the Whore is a harrowing psychodrama of destruction...
...career and life. These chart the growth of the man's disillusionment and discontent, as well as the strength of his personal integrity. The film develops with its title character: the derailment of Serpico's life both by those police who were corrupt and those who refused to inflict punishment, carries as much emotional power as the dismantling of bugler Prewitt at the hands of the U.S. infantry...
...Schlesinger world view, stability is the key not only to security but diplomacy. But there is disagreement over whether the nuclear statistics have any real meaning. According to M.I.T. Political Scientist George Rathjens, "More hardware at this point is irrelevant [because] modest numbers of thermonuclear weapons will suffice to inflict levels of damage on nations that would be unacceptable under all circumstances...
...heart of the nuclear balance of terror is the concept of mutual assured destruction. Each side maintains nuclear attack forces sufficient to inflict unacceptable damage on its opponent even if the other side strikes first...
Assured destruction on the other hand is relatively stable. It matters little which side strikes first. The other side will have enough nuclear punch left to inflict a prohibitive level of damage...