Word: punishable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jury to award Egan $123,600 in damages for lost benefits and emotional distress, but he also won a whopping $5 million in punitive damages. That was a blow to Mutual's image as well as to its pocketbook: under California law, punitive damages are awarded to punish and deter "oppression, fraud or malice...
...million Iranian Kurds, who for centuries have been seeking independence, or at least a measure of autonomy. After a tribunal ordered the execution of 36 Kurds for "counterrevolutionary crimes," a Kurdish political leader, Karim Hessami, warned the government: "From now on, for every Kurd executed, we shall punish one of the Islamic guards in our captivity...
...high school graduation?normally one of those awful contests between reflexive liberals, who oppose standardized testing as unfair, and the Marines of morality, who want everyone to shape up. Strongly opposed by some blacks and teachers, Hunt tried to persuade the state that he did not wish to punish anyone but simply wanted to establish some basic levels of competence in education. When simple persuasion did not work, Hunt tried
Fiedler would not tolerate substandard playing. Once, to punish his musicians for an unruly session, he made them rehearse a three-minute mambo for 70 minutes. Well into his 80s, even after several heart attacks, he continued to lead the orchestra. "If I retired, I'd just be hanging around waiting to go to the dentist or doctor or undertaker," he said. Toward the end, the proud old man would shuffle unsteadily to the podium. But then, invigorated by the music, he seemed to shed 20 years. When Fiedler died last week, Boston lost one of its best-known...
...this view. Only 10%, he claimed, were still "stubborn" in their insistence that China was at fault. Some visiting journalists were annoyed at being used to transmit Chinese statements about the prisoners' attitude toward their own country. Wade protested that the Vietnamese would "almost certainly execute or severely punish these prisoners" after they were repatriated. Replied Wang: "I am just telling you the facts. It's up to you what you do with them...