Word: punished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate Armed Services Committee last week, Carlucci said he would resume payments, which he suspended only three weeks ago, to nine Pentagon contractors that are under investigation in the Government's sweeping probe into charges of bribery and bid-rigging in the defense business. "My job is not to punish companies," he said. "My job is to protect the national security...
...elevator together. Kennedy laughed, said Helms. Perhaps, but Kennedy will not talk about Helms. Neither will Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Why not? "I have to face him," says Pell. Former Senator George McGovern feels less constrained: "People are afraid of him. He can punish you, and he's willing to do that. He's nothing but trouble...
Daunting obstacles stand in the way of such reintegration attempts, tutors say. The dual goal of prisons--to protect society and to punish criminals--creates an atmosphere in which inmates have little room to grow or reform, says former PBH Prisons Committee chairman Christine L. Vanasse '88, who wrote her thesis on the topic. "If' we punish them, how at the same time can we make them better people?" she asks...
...bequeathed to our children. Our desire for a gain-no pain cure has left us looking like a whiny child, unwilling to swallow the bitter, restorative fiscal medicine. We have entrusted the economic health of the nation to Dr. Feelgood and have demonstrated a willingness to forgive deception and punish forthrightness...
...execution of any of the 17 imprisoned terrorists. That might incite the country's Shi'ite minority, which constitutes about 30% of the population. The Kuwaitis view the hijacking as part of their continuing struggle with Iran, which has sought to destabilize their country in an effort to punish it for supporting Iraq in the gulf...