Word: punish
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...subconscious minds of critical groups," he said, like the white working class, defined as couples earning about $25,000 a year, the same voters who shifted from the Democrats to the Republicans in 1994. Such voters may see the verdict as a form of judicial affirmative action, and punish any candidate they regard as catering to minorities. "To them," he said, "the verdict was a travesty...
...discrepancy between the treatment of faculty and administrators and that of students? In an interview, Dean O’Keefe stated that the Ad Board-imposed requirement to withdraw is not solely intended to punish students, but rather is meant to “teach students about taking responsibility for using sources well...
...Hariri’s] murder is an attempt to stifle these efforts to build an independent, sovereign Lebanon free of foreign domination,” McClellan said, adding that the United States will look into measures “to punish those responsible for this terrorist attack” and to free Lebanon from “foreign occupation...
...partnership requires that both sides do their part. Teachers say that here again, parents can have double standards: Push hard, but not too hard; maintain discipline, but don't punish my child. When teachers tell a parent that a child needs to be reprimanded at home, teachers say they often get the response, "I don't reprimand, and don't tell me how to raise my child." Older teachers say they are seeing in children as young as 6 and 7 a level of disdain for adults that was once the reserve of adolescents. Some talk about the "dry-cleaner...
...million government-backed project launched late last October by Amicus, the U.K. employees' union, is also trying to tackle the problem. With the help of dozens of British firms, Amicus aims to draw up a voluntary charter establishing what companies expect from employees - and how they'll punish wrongdoers. Truffet-Lefebvre, now happy at another firm, would surely approve. "It took someone who talked nicely to me to realize that I wasn't a bad employee," she says...