Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kids don't, and that's where you have problems, because if parents are very lenient and don't set limits, then kids will never learn that there is a limit and that they should stop at some point," he says. "That's when they go and start experimenting with that stuff...
Walters claims that two Facilities Maintenance supervisors caused her emotional distress through "insensitive" behavior and lenient handling of a co-worker who harassed...
Perhaps the ugliest aspect of the Detroit drug scene is the involvement of children. Since courts are generally lenient on young offenders and the juvenile detention facilities are overcrowded, adolescents are ideal runners and street dealers. The number of juveniles arrested in Wayne County jumped from 341 in 1986 to 674 in 1987. "They are easily recruited," says Inspector Rudolfo Thomas, who points out that a youth can make up to $2,000 a day dealing. "There's no way to build any kind of drug-education program that can stop that...
...Kathy's been lenient on us and the fewer restrictions really helps," Tri-Captain Beth Chandler says. "It's a lot more fun. We can play without worrying about too many things...
...church folk in general, who clogged the Springfield switchboard with calls protesting the special treatment. After all, until church law was changed in 1973, a clergyman who made such a confession would have been expelled for two years, though most left for good. Even under today's more lenient rules, it is unprecedented for an Assemblies minister caught in a sex scandal to be barred from the pulpit for less than a year. Headquarters was also perturbed that the Louisiana district had announced its plan publicly rather than proposing it privately to Springfield. At week's end the national leadership...