Word: infliction
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...sure, the House and Senate codes will inflict some inequities on members, depending upon their sources of outside income. Lawyers who draw fees and salaries, for example, cannot convert their income to unrestricted stock holdings; Congressmen connected with corporations can. Indeed, the estimated 22 millionaires in the House will be unaffected, since their income is mainly in inherited wealth, farms, family companies and dividends...
...Uganda, he said during his press conference, "have disgusted the entire civilized world." Two days later Uganda's Idi Amin Dada appeared to retaliate by forbidding some 200 Americans to leave his country and summoning them to a meeting this week. Most Amin watchers expected that he would inflict nothing more drastic than oratory and theatrics on the Americans; he himself issued reassurances. But with the unstable dictator, no one could be sure...
...deceptively amiable Sears has been far from an unqualified success. His early strategy-to inflict defeats in the first few primaries and knock Ford out of the race by the end of March-flopped. When Ford won in New Hampshire, Florida and Illinois, Reagan had neither the resources nor the time to gear up for the primaries in delegate-rich New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Most of these delegates went to Ford virtually by default, as did Ohio...
Next to murder, torture is the most egregious violation of personal rights one human being can inflict on another. Sadly, the practice is almost as old as history. During the Middle Ages, suspected heretics were racked, scourged and burned by representatives of the Inquisition in order to make them recant, while in this century Hitler's concentration camps and Stalin's Gulag Archipelago institutionalized torture and brutality on a scale hitherto unknown. The 1948 United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights condemning torture was one notable reaction of the world community to the excesses of the Third Reich...
...scientists and administrators were involved in the decision to construct the special containment facility that the federal government stipulates for this kind of research. But now because some scientists at Harvard and other institutions are wary of the potential dangers of this biohazard, particularly the dangers it could inflict on Cambridge, the final decision about the construction of the facility was reserved for the Cambridge City Council. After several weeks of debate, the council voted last week to place a three-month moratorium on recombinant DNA research while a special review board attempts to assess the dangers involved...