Word: harshness
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...Meanwhile, critics ? including the World Bank ? continued to attack the IMF strategy for Asia as too harsh and likely to make the crisis worse. The IMF's austerity measures were defended by Clinton administration officials. "The approach that has been outlined, which starts with countries pursuing sound policies to create confidence ... is the appropriate framework for addressing these problems," Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers told reporters...
...cannot be so sure that is true of the au pair trial, however, and of its dual outrages--one over too harsh a decision, one over too lenient a one. At issue was justice, or rather injustice, and these days there is nothing like injustice to bring people to their knees or to their feet. People read of so many unjust rewards and unjust punishments--canned ceos walking off with tens of millions while "downsized" employees merely walk off--that they may be on an unconscious search for signs of cosmic fairness...
...polemics in Shedding Life, most surprising is Holub's harsh criticism of contemporary humanities. One might find it odd that Holub, an established literary figure, prefaces his book with a George Steiner quotation that laments "the pretentious triviality which now dominate so much of literary theory and humanistic studies." If voiced by an American, Holub's barb might be interpreted as another sortie in the war between C.P. Snow's "the two cultures"--the hard sciences sniping from one side of the trenches, the humanities and social sciences from the other. In reality, however, Holub has no desire to accuse...
...Piscataway case is a clear example of affirmative action backers abandoning their convictions when confronted with real-world battles. Whether they saw it as a lost cause or simply could not stomach the harsh repercussions affirmative action can have for some, conceding the case undermined their credibility. Defenders of affirmative action would do well to embrace cases like this...
...There must have been a mix-up," he said. He referred to the penalties as a "harsh decision" for a mistake...