Word: punish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watch your favorite superstar punish the opposition, but nothing in sports matches the thrill of seeing an unknown talent enter the fray and lead his team to victory...
...hard line by extending emergency regulations to allow the government to confiscate without a trial the property or assets of suspected dissidents. The tactic was immediately criticized by white lawyers. Said one Salisbury attorney: "There is no real right of appeal. The regulations can be used to punish anyone the government doesn't like." Added a white government official who is planning to leave the country: "The government keeps accusing whites of being responsible for acts of sabotage, but has so far produced not a scrap of public evidence. They'll probably resort to taking away people...
...least as far back as England's sporadic naval blockades of France during the Napoleonic era. In this century trade sanctions have become the warfare of first resort. The U.S. and such international bodies as the League of Nations and the United Nations have employed embargoes to punish Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain and many other countries. In almost every case these tac tics failed dismally because the target nations found new trading partners or willing smugglers to get around the restrictions. Concludes John Letiche, professor of international economics at the University of California at Berkeley...
...organization that became the CRR was founded in 1969 to punish student demonstrators. A committee of Faculty members, administrators and students, with the power to suspend or expel students, the CRR was organized to make it almost impossible for students to receive fair hearings. It met behind closed doors, accepted hearsay evidence, prohibited appeals outside of itself and did not give students equal representation in its membership. Because of these conditions and because students felt the CRR existed only to stifle political dissent, they boycotted the committee from the outset...
Moreover, some activists do not think that Federal guidelines which only apply to Federally-funded procedures truly address the problem. Edelin, for example, takes particular exception to the mandatory 30-day waiting period between the time of consent and the operation. He says the guidelines punish the victim, not the abuser...