Word: infliction
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Many critics of climate neutrality stand aghast at the cost that greenhouse gas reductions would inflict upon Harvard. These criticisms, however, are flawed for two reasons. First and foremost, many of the efforts towards neutrality would actually save money. Harvard’s Green Campus Loan Fund has achieved a return-on-investment of 26 percent—a higher return than the endowment—by funding efficiency and conservation measures that pay for themselves within five to ten years. Efficiency savings could be used to fund other aspects of emission reduction, such as investment in renewable energy...
...past upwards of 150,000 flag-waving onlookers as he drove to the presidential palace, the Casa Rosada, to see President Galtieri. The Argentine leader subsequently told a cheering crowd: "If the British want to come, let them come. We will take them on." He added that Argentina would "inflict punishment" on anyone who "dares to touch one meter of Argentine territory." But the discussions between Haig and the Argentines continued until late that evening. It was after midnight when Haig announced unexpectedly that he would return to London immediately for further talks with the British government. Asked...
...That violence failed to ignite the kind of nationwide unrest that broke out in housing projects across France for nearly three weeks in the autumn of 2005. But police and the government were troubled by the unprecedented degree of organization and communication by riot leaders, who apparently aimed to inflict as much damage as possible on police forces. Not only did the Villiers-le-Bel insurgents use strategic ambush points to stockpile and unleash stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails on security forces, they also repeatedly fired shotguns on riot cops, in what amounted to the most serious use of arms...
...Senator Bill Perkins, one of the few members of the Harlem political establishment campaigning for Obama. Luther Smith, an opeative in the Clinton campaign's field office, concedes that "many people had questions" about the former President's comments. But he shrugs off the suggestion that the remarks could inflict residual damage at the polls. "It did not stick to Hillary. She has her own persona," he says. "At worst, it's a distraction...
...other wars," he told supporters on Sunday, without elaborting. "And right now-we're gonna have a lot of PTSD [post traumatic stress disorder] to treat, my friends...We're gonna have a lot of combat wounds that have to do with these terrible explosive IEDs that inflict such severe wounds...