Word: punish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadlines "are not an attempt to frighten people," said Kuwabara. "We don't want to punish them...
...that drug abuse isn't worth attacking too. But anyone genuinely concerned with the drug problem would spend more time and money on drug education and rehabilitation and less on attempts to punish drug dealers. Yet Reagan continues to pour money into border patrol programs that have proven utterly ineffective while there remains a three to six-month waiting list for treatment at New York City drug addiction centers...
Drury said the board would not seek to punish Harvard since it agreed to settle the situation quickly...
Moreover, some analysts say, the Soviets wanted to display their displeasure with what they feel is recalcitrance by the Reagan Administration on arms control and other issues. They also wanted to punish and intimidate the Western press in Moscow, which they feel has not taken their peace initiatives seriously enough. The arrest of Daniloff, says Washington Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, was a "considered judgment and decison by an irritated Soviet leadership." Whether Gorbachev fully concurred is a much debated question. He, Foreign Policy Adviser Anatoli Dobrynin and Shevardnadze were all on vacation at the time, raising the possibility that...
...Neutrality Act was presumably introduced to punish individual Americans who disturb the sovereignty of legitimately constituted governments against which the United States has no substantive grievance. Although Nicaragua fits this description, it is one of the nations that has not been protected from our government or our private citizens...