Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Klinghoffer's daughters and several Americans who were held hostage during the Oct. 7-9 hijacking criticized the hijackers' sentences as too lenient...
Barnala, who has been criticized for being too lenient with the militants, had already indicated that he might be forced to toughen his policies toward them. "The time has perhaps come when more stern steps will be needed to tackle the problem," he said. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi urged all parties in the state to unite behind Barnala and dispatched two top aides to advise the beleaguered state leader...
...council rolls on, as two more members ask questions. Delegate Robert Weissman '88 asks if the council can look into getting mail delivery for student groups with offices in Memorial Hall. Fellow Representative Ensley asks if the alcohol policy is being made more lenient...
...ministers and finance chiefs from five major debtors--Brazil ($104 billion), Mexico ($97 billion), Argentina ($49 billion), Venezuela ($32 billion) and Peru ($14 billion)--gathered late in the week near the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este for an emergency meeting, they drafted an urgent plea for more lenient terms from Western banks...
...Every director knows that a follow-up movie must be bigger and better than the its predecessors. But Godzilla just isn't any bigger and better. The creature has no new powers. It doesn't destroy anything more than it did in the past (in fact it was pretty lenient on Toyko this time). It doesn't travel in space, threaten the moon, or try to stop the Earth from rotating...