Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with French police. "We cannot condone such acts, which only harm French and Palestinian people," said Arafat. The Iraqi government allowed the guerrillas to land at Baghdad in a French airliner that had flown them from Orly, but then arrested them. Either Iraq or the Palestine Liberation Organization may punish the men. Such threats have been made in the past after similar incidents, but never carried out. Whether the Arabs are in earnest this time remains to be seen...
Students at colleges throughout the country should have particularly fond memories of Hebert as the man who led a fight in Congress to keep the Reserve Officers Training Corps on the campuses. He sought to exclude colleges who did away with ROTC from government programs in order to punish them...
Does Harvard wish to cooperate with the Community in planning the future or does it wish to dictate to the Community and punish us when in its eyes we misbehave? When one sees Harvard's bulldozer knocking over an old house, one can only be struck by the frailty and impermanence of our physical surroundings and our society. Sincerely, Millard Long
...back to the oil countries. In the 1980s some OPEC members may be earning as much from interest on their loans and bank deposits as from oil. This added wealth would give them more flexibility to reduce oil production if they want to conserve their liquid gold or to punish importers by reductions for political reasons. Meanwhile, to pay the interest, the borrowers may have to print more and more money, fueling inflation...
...never ideological; he is killed not because he is immoral but because he is amoral, not because he has made the wrong decisions but because he has made no decisions at all. The people responsible for Lucien's alienation are responsible for his crimes, and it is they who punish him as well. Like most of the collaborators, Lucien's links to his "side" of the war are based on the accidents of his personal history, the nuances of his particular case...