Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps worst, the punishment was collective. Goetz had been mugged four years ago and had brooded ever since over the lenient treatment his attackers received. These four were paying for more than their own sins. A whole class of muggers got theirs on the downtown express. But the law, which still prevails aboveground, does not permit trial by class. Everyone pays for his sins only. Even criminals cannot remain abstract...
...been the pride of Chicago, a premier banking institution, a leader in world finance. Fortune ranked it among the top 10 banks in all measures of financial soundness, including profits, assets, equity, and deposits. But all of these positive factors tempted the bank's directors to become more lenient when granting loans to creditors of questionable financial soundness. Continental Illinois's purchase of sour energy loans from a failing Penn Square Bank precipitated its own eventual demise, as did its involvement in the great rush into Third World financing of the 1970s...
...money, the fund insists on a range of tightfisted economic policies that could shatter the country's brittle new democracy. Two weeks ago, Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín bypassed fund negotiators and appealed directly to IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosière for more lenient terms. Yet neither Alfonsín nor any other leader can simply defy the fund. Its seal of approval is the key to vital commercial credit. "The power of the IMF is absolute," says Paul Singer, an economist at the University of Sao Paulo. "No foreign country...
...Administration had finally abandoned its zero option (cancellation of the NATO deployments in exchange for elimination of all SS-20s throughout the U.S.S.R.); it was inching toward a reasonable compromise whereby the NATO deployments would be scaled back in exchange for a reduction in European SS-20s, with more lenient treatment for SS-20s in Asia. In the INF talks, the major obstacle was, and remains, Soviet intransigence...
...Administration had finally abandoned its zero option (cancellation of the NATO deployments in exchange for elimination of all SS-20s throughout the U.S.S.R.); it was inching toward a reasonable compromise whereby the NATO deployments would be scaled back in exchange for a reduction in European SS-20s, with more lenient treatment for SS-20s in Asia. In the INF talks, the major obstacle was, and remains, Soviet intransigence...