Word: punished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plummeted, mercurial Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad implied that international financier George Soros and his ilk were responsible. He then trotted out a familiar, repellent accusation, blaming Jewish speculators who he contended were out to squash the economy of a Muslim country. His proposals to restrict currency trading and otherwise punish foreign investors quickly scared away new investment and called into question the future of what has been one of the world's great economic success stories...
...Chinese Communist Party. On the same day, he declared that "the foremost important political task at this moment is to thoroughly suppress the counterrevolutionary riot" and that "for those conspirators who planned, organized, and led the turmoil--and those counterrevolutionary thugs who participated in the riot--we must punish them according to the law, strike them with resolution and show them no leniency whatsoever...
That year the Federal Government got the power to punish nursing homes in ways other than denying them federal funds. The government can now levy fines, deny payments for new patients to nursing homes and mandate training for their staffs. Yet the government seems mighty miserly when it comes to holding nursing homes accountable...
...officials say nursing homes "have a right" to correct problems before penalties are imposed. But a former government inspector disagrees. "Congress said to impose these penalties, and they're not," says Charles Bailey, a lawyer who left the HCFA this year after spending nearly seven years trying to punish bad nursing homes...
...Gore tells the AFL-CIO the U.S. will punish businesses that interfere in union elections (Reuters...