Word: infliction
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...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...
...racial injustices of the past is the over-riding concern of our country. Academic freedom, like other privileges, involves obligations as well as rights. These rights, as I see it, do not offer a franchise to write lightly, on the basis of the most sketchy evidence, on propositions which inflict severe injury on others as well as on the prospects of solving our tragic heritage in race relations...
...industry was dropped from legislation passed by Congress last month.) But even if there were no Phase II inhibitions on prices, magazines would still be in jeopardy. The industry has been suffering from rising costs and declining profits in recent years, and passing along huge additional costs could only inflict more damage. To raise subscription prices radically would drive away readers; to hike advertising rates significantly might encourage business to use other outlets, particularly television. The primary reason cited by Gardner Cowles for folding Look was the anticipated postal increase...
...racial injustices of the past is the overriding concern of our country. Academic freedom, like other privileges, involves obligations as well as rights. These rights, as I see it, do not offer a franchise to write lightly, on the basis of the most sketchy evidence, on propositions which inflict severe injury on others as well as on the prospects of solving our tragic heritage in race relations...