Word: harshness
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...Security Council on Friday warned that a nuclear test would be treated as a threat to global peace, language that could open the way for binding sanctions or even tougher action - the next steps remain unclear, and potentially divisive. The U.S. and Japan will likely push for harsh sanctions, to back a demand that North Korea submit to denuclearization under international supervision. China and South Korea will likely back the principle that North Korea must be punished for crossing a red line, but their aversion to sanctions is based on fears of potentially cataclysmic chaos accompanying the collapse...
...that the socialists lied “morning noon and night,” but that their rivals, the center right Fidesz party, did as well. The socialists did not win the election because they were promising tax cuts and spending increases while the conservatives were promising harsh austerity measures. Indeed Fidesz’s proposals were even more unsound and disengaged from reality; they campaigned on explicit promises of sizable tax cuts and spending increases...
...Pyongyang clearly wants the international community to believe that it is prepared to dramatically raise the stakes now in pursuit of a "grand bargain" agreement with the U.S. All the diplomatic players have adopted familiar responses, with Japan threatening harsh responses to a nuclear test and Russia and China calling for restraint and diplomacy. Hawks in the U.S. policy debate will say the new threat is a sign that sanctions are effective and are hurting the regime; doves will warn that escalating pressure will simply provoke the North Koreans into crossing the nuclear Rubicon...
Middlesex Assistant District Attorney Jessica Noble, however, urged the judge to issue a harsh sentence, recommending a six-month prison sentence, 18-month probation, and community service...
...visible Latin leader since Fidel Castro. But his rhetorical excesses, like his antics at the U.N., allow his critics to dismiss him as a buffoonish pretender. It was a sign of how badly his act played in New York City last week that even Democratic Representative Charles Rangel, a harsh critic of Bush's, went out of his way to tell Chvez that "you don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district and ... condemn my President...