Word: punished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Campaign Finance Reform. To many Americans, campaign fundraising reeks of corruption. The Republican leadership in Congress, by killing every major attempt at campaign finance reform, hopes that voters won't care enough to punish them in November. Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott, for example, claims that voters in his home state of Mississippi "don't ask me about this subject." When representatives return home for summer recess and begin campaigning, we'll see if they're correct. If not, look for the Republicans to meet the fate of their Democratic predecessors who once thought voters didn't care about budget...
...subtext is that Starr is still looking to flip Hubbell as a way to get his investigation closer to the Oval Office. Hubbell lawyer John Nields said as much, telling reporters that Starr was sticking his client with a trumped-up tax fraud charge out of a desire to punish Hubbell for not giving him more on Clinton...
...Anyone could have stolen that rug," said Straus resident William P. Bohlen '01. "It is unfair to punish residents of Straus for something that was more than likely done by an outsider...
...children re being beaten, harassed and essentially enslaved so that Americans can have cheap apparel; as consumers we must work to limit suffering by consuming responsibly and insisting that the institutions into which we pour our money act responsibly. Sweatshops are bad and we should do our best to punish those who strive to profit from the suffering of others. But rather than striving to stomp out each individual sweatshop, we wonder if we shouldn't search for the root of the problem. In all the sweat-free flurry, it seem that we have forgotten to ask why sweatshops exist...
Criticizing Washington's refusal to punish China for its record of human rights violations, he said trade has supplanted liberty as America's paramount value...