Word: infliction
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...promotional videos his global audience has come to expect, bin Laden nonetheless U.S. legislators decrying the failure of the government's efforts to roll up his al-Qaeda network and prompted the FBI to warn U.S. law enforcement agencies to expect a catastrophic terror strike designed to inflict "mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy, and maximum psychological trauma...
...boats or trains, rather than planes" in an assault. But within an hour the statement was withdrawn, replaced by a less frightening one. "If al-Qaeda could mount an attack upon key economic targets, or upon our transport infrastructure, they would," it now read. "If they could inflict damage upon the health of our population, they would." Other European intelligence agencies were less equivocal. In Berlin, Germany's normally reticent intelligence chief, August Hanning, made the case in a frank interview on prime-time television: "The fear is very concrete that we must reckon with a further attack ... of perhaps...
...complaint is crucial to the government’s attempts to inflict substantial monetary punishments on Harvard...
...pills are lined up like jelly beans. If only they were. In a harsh reminder of just how different this camp is, the nurses carry those pills to the camp's 10 cabins two to three times a day. Some kids must pop as many as 30, which can inflict hours of nausea, dizziness or nightmares that make sleeping impossible. Smaller kids have trouble swallowing horse-pill-size tablets designed for adults. Liquid meds taste awful and can induce instant vomiting. Meds time often provokes a struggle; it's one thing these kids can rebel against. Some bury their medicine...
...divided on the issue. Many of the victims' relatives are in favor of the death penalty, and the prosecutor, Norm Maleng, has indicated that he is not interested in engaging in any plea bargaining. As sheriff, Reichert is torn between wanting to know the whole story and wanting to inflict the ultimate punishment. A cautious man, he makes the point that Ridgway is innocent until proved guilty. "I would love to have the opportunity to visit with him and learn the what, where, why, when, who and how for each case...but if anyone deserves to get the death penalty...