Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also explore National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski's bizarre use of Billy as a secret intermediary to persuade Libya to pressure Iran into releasing the American hostages held in Tehran. And the hearings will dig for any evidence that Billy got improper help from the White House or lenient treatment from the Justice Department in avoiding criminal prosecution for failing to disclose details of his Libyan dealings earlier...
...value for their money or that his friendship in any way influenced U.S. policy toward Libya. In its most serious interpretation, the evidence suggests that Libya's Muammar Gaddafi might have skillfully got Billy into debt financially with the aim of gaining future benefits. In the most lenient interpretation, Billy had simply hoodwinked the Libyans into thinking he had more influence than he has-and happily taken the money and run without seeking any favors for Libya from his brother's White House in return...
...many other issues. He talked tough about combating crime, re-established capital punishment and stiffened sentences for rape, robbery and burglary. But the state's prison population declined during his first five years in office, from 27,000 inmates to 19,000, primarily because of a more lenient parole policy; when he left office, the state had 24,000 people in its prisons...
...labor groups, Nader is using today's Big Business Day events to call attention to the proposed "Corporate Democracy Act of 1980." Nader advocates federal chartering of corporations because state chartering encourages attempts to woo business by relaxing corporate regulations. Deleware, for example, boasts the nation's most lenient business codes and incorporates about half of the Fortune 500 businesses. Madison's reservations about state regulation were probably well-founded in an age of small-scale agrarian enterprises; the need for standardized, federal guidelines for today's ubiquitous business world seems almost axiomatic...
...prisoners now held under military detention. The concession almost certainly would have meant early acquittal for some. Others would have been freed if their sentences matched time already spent in jail. Still other detainees would probably have been transferred from military to civilian jurisdiction, where they could expect more lenient judgments...