Word: punishable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enterprises. While there obviously is plenty of political corruption on all sides, there is no evidence that Democrats?or other Republicans?burglarized offices, tapped telephones, kept huge caches of secret campaign funds to finance the disruption of opponents' campaigns, or tried to obstruct the judicial system's attempts to punish the offenders...
...screened by a faculty advisor. Or else, publications tied to the school administration through subsidies think hard before printing anything which might provoke administration reprisals. It has not been unusual, particularly in the uneasy days of the late 60s and early 70s, for administrators to threaten, intimidate and even punish student editors by withholding or withdrawing funds...
...Nixon's "hard line" on criminals is obviously an elementary oversight in cause-effect principles. More precisely and elegantly expressed (with thanks to J.J. Rousseau): "A fool, if he be obeyed, may punish crimes as well as another: but the true statesman is he who knows how to prevent them...
...that the more populous "frontline" states like Egypt will use every possible means-including subverting the conservative, oil-rich regimes-to see that a good share of the oil revenue is channeled into the struggle against Israel. "They would attempt," Hottinger speculates, "to evolve an oil policy designed to punish the friends of Israel and to benefit the friends of the Arabs, who in that case would almost certainly include most or all of the Communist world...
Whether the Arab states could effectively punish the Western powers by such means is widely disputed. But it is clear that the revolution in oil, while it could provide the Arab nations with an Aladdin's lamp of riches for development, can also increase the volatility of a historically unstable region. Its advent makes even more urgent the need for a break in the impasse...