Word: punished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bloodletting over Interngate. As Administration officials tell it, the scandal posed no problem. And to make the point more emphatically, officials say, "He certainly has no trouble concentrating on issues of war and peace." In other words, Clinton is thinking very carefully about whether to bomb Iraq and punish Saddam Hussein for defying U.N. arms inspectors...
...international community has never sought to punish the Iraqi people for the sins of their leaders," he said. "That's why U.N. Security Council Resolutions against Iraq are clear in exempting food and medicine from any international sanctions...
Likewise, a beneficent tyrant could better provide for domestic tranquillity. He could prevent crime much better than our courts, and he could punish it more justly since the generality of the law does not bind him. In addition, a beneficent tyrant probably could better manage our economy than does the current, fractured system of the Federal Reserve, the President and the Congress...
...cold, dark, thousand-room Potala Palace, playing games with the palace sweepers, rigging up a hand-cranked projector on which he could watch Tarzan movies and Henry V, and clobbering his only real playmate--his immediate elder brother Lobsang Samten--serene in the knowledge that no one would readily punish a boy regarded as the incarnation of the god of compassion. Yet the dominant characteristic of his childhood was its loneliness. Often, he recalls, he would go onto the rooftop of his palace and watch the other boys of Lhasa playing in the streets. And each time his brother left...
...record companies find it much easier to target students because they know that they will be disciplined by their respective universities. Many of the companies on the Internet that also distribute MP3s are much harder to locate and punish...