Word: punished
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...stop opposing a plan for increased minority representation, the local chapter resorted to tougher methods: it mounted a boycott last week to deter tourists and conventions from coming to the city. The strategy, though hardly new, is gaining in popularity. Increasingly, national groups and associations have sought to punish and pressure cities by moving their conventions and meetings elsewhere...
...point. Punitive damages are intended as a form of quasi-criminal retribution against wrongdoers in civil cases. They exist to deter future misdeeds. "Punitive damages are not intended to compensate the victim," says Edward Cooper, a professor at the University of Michigan law school. "Instead, they are meant to punish especially bad conduct." Such judgments are most often awarded in product-liability and personal-injury cases...
...There is no good reason to punish transfer students by making them satisfy the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement by the end of their first semester. All that does is create unnecessary pressure and, as one student put it, "makes me feel like I'm taking an extra course." Let them have a full year, as the first-years do, as long as they pass the test by graduation...
...aftermath of the Civil War was a painful time for both Black and white residents in the South. Northern politicians eagerly used all of the resources they had at their disposal to punish and humiliate the losers. They ignored the fact that most of the vanquished Southern people were not rich plantation owners and secessionist politicians. Many were poor but proud farmers who worked the land, just as generations of slaves had done since before the founding of Harvard...
...Right-wing assassins in South Africa have found a brutal, high-tech way to punish their enemies: send them a booby-trapped tape player. On Feb. 15, such a Walkman-type device took the life of Bheki Mlangeni, a human-rights lawyer. The real target of the deadly package was Dirk Coetzee, a former policeman who now supports the African National Congress and lives in exile in Zambia. Coetzee testified last summer that former colleagues on the South African police force were behind the hit-squad deaths of several A.N.C. activists. The parcel bomb was sent to Coetzee in Lusaka...