Word: punished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerful Appropriations Committee chairmanship. Some GOP Senators were calling for Hatfield's head as retaliation for his vote against thebalanced budget amendment. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says a generational split surfaced in a tense, closed meeting this afternoon, with Hatfield's longtime colleagues opposing the harsh punishment. A handful of Hatfield opponents, notably GOP Senate freshmen Connie Mack of Florida and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, were outnumbered. But Tumulty says their anger touched off a sharp debate on how to punish wayward party leaders in the future. She also warns that Hatfield still may not get off scott-free...
Shalala said Quincy uses its court system "to protect women and to punish those who hurt them" and includes the use of mental health officials and the social service community in conjunction with the criminal justice system...
...those who say that only a market system can be fair to all parties, we say look again. Market systems punish the weak, those who do not have the tools to compete. And how can minorities compete when other sectors of the market conspire against them? The situation must be forcibly reversed...
...Epps lost this battle. On Monday, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 agreed to recognize Hrnicek's HCIA on the provisions that they refrain from recruiting for the BCC and they preserve their autonomy. Jewett's decision has a certain logic. Harvard should not be able to punish a student group before it actually violates any College rules. But if Jewett's action appears reasonable, it fails to examine the nature of HCIA's "independence." Where is the line between a bible study group and a recruiting session for the Church? Jewett seems to believe that there exists...
...control of Banco de Venezuela, one of the country's oldest banks, which is now in government hands. -Gustavo Gomez Lopez, Tinoco's successor as president of Banco Latino. He insists he is innocent and claims he is being targeted by Caldera, who, he says, is determined to punish the friends of his old foe Perez. Gomez Lopez says most of Banco Latino's losses can be attributed to the deteriorating economy, mismanagement and bad loans, not to theft and fraud. He was charged last week with embezzling public funds...