Word: harsh
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...opportunity the Democrats had to pass truly landmark, bipartisan legislation under allegedly “post-partisan” leadership from President Obama. Republicans and Democrats alike agree that health care is too expensive, and that, in the absence of reform, budgetary realities of Medicare and Medicaid will force harsh fiscal choices...
...Committee recommendations offer a welcome change for students and faculty who feel that withdrawal is too harsh a punishment for most incidents of academic dishonesty...
...reform," he said of his critics, slamming analysts who say a push for health care could come at the expense of the Democratic majority in the November elections. "My question to them is: When is the right time? If not now, when? If not us, who?" Obama also had harsh words for the health-insurance industry, citing a need for greater accountability and more options for consumers. Under pressure from the White House to wrap up negotiations, Democrats in Congress struggled to iron out lingering differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill...
...junior, who was required to withdraw from the College for two semesters in January for using verbatim and near-verbatim quotations in a paper draft without proper attribution, says she believes the punishment she received was too harsh...
...modern history fraught with tension and mutual distrust. Cairo has received sharp local criticism in recent months for its construction of a new subterranean barrier along Egypt's Gaza border, meant to cut off smuggling. Analysts say the heightened crackdown on the lucrative underground trade, coupled with years of harsh treatment and sweeping arrests by security forces after terrorist attacks on Sinai beach resorts in 2004 and '06, has increased tense exchanges between security forces and the local population...