Word: clamped
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Some might view the MIT settlement as an indication that colleges and universities will clamp down on student social life in an unnecessarily harsh fashion. On the contrary, the settlement is merely a reaffirmation of a basic principle that institutions of higher learning are responsible for student safety. To this end, we hope that recent settlement will force other institutions to critically examine their own policies and attitudes, so that a similar tragedy will never happen again...
...entertainment and gossip value, and they egg Brennan on whenever his resentment shows signs of flagging. Blood feuds have been a way of life in this village for longer than anyone can remember, and O'Brien's evocative prose shows the chilling hold that history and the dead clamp on the living...
...seems like a no-brainer: requiring credit dodgers with considerable assets to pay off their debts. So it should come as no surprise that the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to clamp down on the growing number of people taking advantage of America's somewhat liberal bankruptcy laws. Under the bill, defaulters capable of paying off some, if not all, of their debts would be required to do so after all of their assets have been liquidated...
DEADBEAT CLAMPDOWN This month some Virginia parents are receiving pink or blue booties, courtesy of the state. The boots, though, are the kind that clamp onto a tire and will be used to immobilize the cars of egregiously deadbeat dads or moms. A window sticker accompanies each boot: "This vehicle has been seized by the sheriff for unpaid child support." The pioneering state shame-on-you plan is an expansion of a Fairfax County program that has netted $347,000 from 70 parents in two years...