Word: punish
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...heart of S. 2222 are three provisions designed to curb illegal immigration of Mexican farm workers. This is what Simpson calls "a three-legged stool." S. 2222 would reinforce the Southern border patrol, punish employers who hire illegal aliens and ease identification of undocumented workers. But these are three wobbly legs...
...publishing company and with it a piece of the Milan-based Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest, most respected daily newspaper. Businessmen who were already uneasy about Calvi's connections with the Vatican feared that he might turn the independent Corriere to his own purposes, perhaps to punish his enemies with unfavorable coverage or commentary. Some Italians believe that Calvi's growing power led influential businessmen and public officials to begin to push for his downfall...
Government from taking action against the company: "The laws of the U.S. are not the laws of the whole world." Designed chiefly to punish the Soviets for their role in the imposition of martial law in Poland, the pipeline sanctions were extended in June to include foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms and foreign companies holding licenses for U.S. technology. But instead of hurting the Soviets, the sanctions seem to be playing right into Moscow's hands. Observed the French newspaper Le Monde: "Now Mr. Brezhnev can gloat. Less than three months after all that hugging and embracing...
...Europe exasperation with U.S. floundering, combined with cynicism about Washington's possible complicity in Israel's wish to exterminate the P.L.O. has intensified complaints about the Administration's overall foreign policy. "Reagan has never proved himself convincing in threatening to punish Israel, said a French foreign ministry official...
...gurity by reason of insanity of gunning down the president and three other 16 months ago must kindle the same questions. Imagine what the Soviets must think of us in the wake of the Hinckley acquittal. The same society that unceasingly berates them for external aggression itself refuses to punish a crime-attempted murder of the President-that almost anywhere else would be grounds for invocation of the death penalty...