Word: punish
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...said their tactic was simple: they manipulated the price of the Windows operating system to punish reluctant computer companies into complying with Microsoft policies...
...Justice Department must set guidelines nationally, and legislation must come from Congress," he added, to let police officers know that a "superior power will back them up or punish them if they don't do their job. The Justice Department must enforce accountability...
...lobby," has called for a boycott of Smith & Wesson, and one wholesaler has said it will stop buying the company's guns. This has prompted the attorneys general in three states--New York, Connecticut and Maryland--to launch an antitrust investigation into whether the gun industry is colluding to punish Smith & Wesson...
...bill, sponsored by a Virginia Republican, Robert Goodlatte, would compel Internet Service Providers (ISPs) serving the American public - well-known examples are AOL, Earthlink and WorldNet - to block sites offering gambling. It would also punish Internet venues that allowed Americans to place bets online. The players themselves would not be penalized, and the bill would maintain a hands-off approach toward certain types of gambling, specifically pari-mutuel games and lotteries, currently permitted in many states...
...government does too little to pressure other countries into stemming the supply side, while U.S. law enforcement isn't doing its part to discourage the domestic market. Specifically, it asserts that U.S. attorneys don't want to bother pursuing these complex international cases and that federal laws don't punish traffickers strongly enough to discourage the practice. The report was assembled by State Department analyst Amy Richard as a special research project commissioned by the CIA. It found that some 50,000 female slaves are funneled into the U.S. annually, with a recent increase due in large part to normalization...