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Earnings Heartache. In an angry mood, Judge Leff said, "The real danger is the cynicism that is engendered when, at the level at which this kind of fraud takes place, the general public believes that ultimately there isn't any effective sanction which will punish or which will be feared by these corporate thieves." Nonetheless, the appellate court agreed to give Dolkart yet another stay, pending an appeal of his sentence...
...member of Dukakis' own welfare advisory council derides it as "a foolhardy adventure, conceived in haste, doomed to failure and meant to punish the poor." But workfare seems assured of political popularity in a state that still prides itself on its Puritan work ethic...
Attitudes on sex and marriage are changing. New women's groups are agitating for the legalization of divorce (favored by six out of ten Spaniards) and for abolition of harsh old laws that punish adultery with fines and imprisonment?for women only...
...University showed extreme callousness toward the workers at the hearings, which also brought to light the possibility that Harvard used the new summer hiring policy to punish a shop steward in Eliot House for union-related activities. Last spring, Sylvia Gallagher helped lead a lunch-hour walkout by members of Local 26 for an emergency union meeting. When the University slapped Gallagher with a five-day suspension and docked her two hours pay, she filed a grievance against Harvard with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Several weeks later, Harvard offered Gallagher only a part-time summer job--one that...
...didn't want to punish a man for public service in Washington," the source said. "We didn't want a Rostow in our faculty. We had strong feelings that shouldn't happen here. Anyway he is at the top of his field in international relations...