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World champions South Africa humiliated woeful Wales by inflicting a record home defeat on their hosts.

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Speaking at a conference on Monday, head of the Confederation of British Industry Rain Newton-Smith urged Reeves not to inflict "death by a thousand taxes" on businesses.

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The audience has been steadily aging as well, feeling every ache that the decade between the show’s first season and the present has inflicted.

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The Fed’s dovish turn and tighter liquidity have destabilized equity markets of late and inflicted real damage on returns.

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Many cancer therapies work by inflicting deliberate DNA damage on tumor cells, and early drug development often requires precise measurements of how much damage a compound creates.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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