Thompson is attracted to that formula because it could inflict pain on the intended target without the collateral damage to U.S. importers that high tariffs would cause.
The reason for alarm is that high oil prices inflict pain on consuming economies in so many nasty ways, ranging from higher inflation to deteriorating terms of trade and a decline in international competitiveness.
Raul Fuentes Villota told a hearing last month that he was tortured while being held by Spanish police in 1991, including having pencils placed between his fingers and squeezed to inflict pain on his hands.
Despite all this, there are still opportunities for startups to inflict severe pain on incumbents.
One obvious approach would be to inflict equal pain on each of the services.
Are they seriously prepared to inflict more pain on the middle class because they refuse to ask anything more of those at the very top?
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Americans need to understand that Mr. Obama is threatening that if he doesn't get what he wants, he's ready to inflict maximum pain on everybody else.
But when its president trashes his own stock in order to inflict greater pain on the dot.coms, we see evidence that even the world's most powerful Goliaths tremble before the Net's disruptive powers.
It will now be up to SCOTUS to determine just how far our First Amendment rights go when it comes to using freedom of speech to inflict emotional pain on a parent grieving for a son who gave his life for his country.
The pain they inflict on staff in terms of absenteeism, turnover, and poor morale are not worth the price of meeting tight deadlines and tight budgets.
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But if raising the level of happiness is to be the chief aim of government policy, as he argues it should, where then is the call to make divorce harder, given the pain that he says broken homes inflict on children?
Campaigns are not the place to expect details on the pain a candidate plans to inflict.
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