Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every individual a basic power need. He sees it as essential to selfesteem. When this power need is thwarted or goes unrecognized, frustration, apathy and violence result. May distinguishes between senseless street violence, the often justified violence of oppressed nationalities and racial groups, and the psychological violence people unwittingly inflict on themselves. For example, Mercedes, one of Dr. May's patients, was unable to have a child until she realized not only her right but her duty to express anger. As a black woman whose father had forced her into prostitution, she had a lot to be angry about...
Only then can the people of Indochina begin to be relieved of the nightmare we have helped inflict upon them. And only then can the people of America emerge from their own far lesser nightmare
...began with the proposition that individuals and institutions discharge their moral responsibilities not by avoiding contamination or controversy (for that is, in any event, a futile quest), but by seeking effective means of reducing the social harm we inflict on one another. Divestitute of corporate stocks, we found, does not advance this goal. It is not likely to change a company's behavior. Indeed, a day or so after the sale has taken place, (a) the price of the stock--management's major concern--is back to normal (the historical evidence makes this quite clear): (b) a few alert investors...
...first two phases, described in captured documents as terror in the countryside and attacks on militia outposts, began after the Tet holidays last February. Evidently, last week's offensive began Phase 3: an effort to pin down South Vietnamese forces where they are weakest, inflict casualties, and discredit Vietnamization. The final phases are at tacks on major cities (quite possible) and a general uprising leading to the fall of the Thieu regime (farfetched...
...Board thumbed down a 20.9% first-year raise for West Coast longshoremen. The board voted instead to allow a 14.9% increase, generous by almost any standard. The move represented the first time that the board had refused any sizable demand from a union with the clout to inflict serious damage on the economy by striking. The board did reduce an aerospace workers' contract increase from 12% to 8% earlier this year, but that industry was already so weak that the workers were not likely to risk walking...