Word: mete
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which dollars. For the Black Caucus members, Clinton promised to draft an Executive Order decrying racial disparities in the application of the death penalty in federal prosecutions. Attorney General Janet Reno also pledged to take steps to rectify such imbalances. None of this, however, applies to the states, which mete out the bulk of capital sentences. While the Administration's efforts drew all but 10 of the 39 House members of the caucus back into the fold, it wasn't enough...
...these cases, it is innocent who are harmed at random, picked by thugs who are likely to mete out more than a few controlled lashes...
...employees, who were non-union, said they were instructed not to speak with union workers unless it was absolutely necessary. Skane had also attempted to mete out discipline to employees without first permitting them union representation, workers said...
McCombe said Sinclair and Johnson, who often preside at meetings to mete out discipline, condone discriminatory practices in the unit...
That's why most of the questions raised about Thelma & Louise seem so weirdly inappropriate. Does it offer suitable "role models"? Is the "violence" its heroines mete out to their tormentors really "empowering" to women, or does it represent a feckless sacrifice of the high moral ground? Is its indiscriminate "male bashing" grossly unfair to an entire...