Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They suggested that the indictments are an effort of the Nixon administration to "punish" Massachusetts for the Shea bill which exempted Massachusetts servicemen from duty in Vietnam. The Supreme Court refused to hear the Massachusetts case...
...time limit on ratification by the Bundestag. If the treaties of Moscow and Warsaw remain unratified for more than a few months, however, Bonn's relations with the Soviets and Poles are bound to deteriorate. Soviet diplomats have privately warned that Moscow will "punish" the West Germans if they do not follow through on the treaty. By punish, the Russians most probably mean that they would put the old German card back into play to block Bonn's overtures to other East bloc countries. But Brandt is hoping that the Soviet impulse will be offset by Moscow's hunger...
Control of the agenda is only the beginning of the chairman's powers. He rewards his supporters and punishes those who vote against him by granting or withholding favors. He can even reward or punish their constituents by influencing the allocation of federal grants and the placement of installations. Since charity begins at home, he can almost always point to the many benefits seniority has brought his own district...
Moscow's determination to punish the hijackers undoubtedly increased last week, when a second Aeroflot craft, a small passenger plane, was successfully diverted to Turkey by two students. The two asked for political asylum, claiming that they want to go to the U.S. American officials, determined to avoid a double standard for hijackers, are not likely to grant that wish, unless the students are first tried in Turkish courts. In any case, their deed could complicate the fate of the four military officers...
...laws, town officials had only two ways to jolt lax parents: by applying a Michigan statute holding them civilly liable for a minor's malicious damage up to $1,500, or making their children wards of the court. Neither method worked well, partly because officials were loath to punish middle-class parents. As a result, parents tended to be tolerant about offspring misbehavior. "Their attitude was that it's kid stuff," says Chief Richardson. "Now that attitude changes when the police say 'If it happens again, you're the one in trouble because...