Word: punished
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...Reagan may prove to have surprising staying power. "Don't underestimate the President's ability to go to the country," warns Vice President George Bush. Reagan is not an insider like Lyndon Johnson, who would deal and wheedle, reward and punish. Reagan's way of disciplining Congressmen is simpler: he just goes on TV and turns their constituents against them. Indeed, the term lame duck loses much of its meaning with a President who knows how to use television as a bully pulpit...
...courts are now being threatened by "a freshening stream of libel actions, which often seem as much designed to punish writers and publications as to recover damages for real injuries." This warning comes from Federal Judge Robert Bork, a respected conservative who is considered the leading judicial candidate for President Reagan's next appointment to the Supreme Court...
Next, Mr. Gooen brings up the old rape exception. It strikes me as funny because often I hear the charge that pro-lifers do not really care about the fetus, they just want to punish the woman. Actually, that type of twisted logic is exactly what is behind the rape exception. It says that the law will make an exception for this woman because she was not responsible for getting pregnant, implying that we will punish this other woman who had intercourse consensually because she is guilty. Pro-lifers, on the other hand, are not so concerned with laying guilt...
MOST GRIEVOUS OVERSIGHT: The Tony Award snub to Death of a Salesman, which got but one nomination--some say to punish Star Dustin Hoffman for feuding with producers...
Trying to punish a network