Word: punishingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Teterboro policeman drove up, a stocky black-leather trooper who politely said that the blue executive had summoned him and that he would arrest us if we didn't quickly disappear. We retreated to Manny's Cockpit Restaurant, with its bicentennial decor, to dry off and plan strategy and punish ourselves with thoughts of condominiums and never-more-than-ten-minutes-of-rain-a-day. Two dozen yards off, Bruce was pumping gas into the Miami-bound Lear jet, and we couldn't look for its pilot without risking a night in the Teterboro jail, if there was one. Things...
...have dimmed. The Gallup poll finds that only 45% of the public think that the energy situation is worse .than "fairly serious." Reported TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, who has covered Congress for more than a quarter-century: "It's going to be tough for a Congressman to vote to punish his constituents when they can't see why. Historically, Americans don't mend the roof when the sun is shining, so there's reason for skepticism on whether Congress will go along with the President...
...they all punish themselves when the personal glory was so far away? Costin, medal-winning Crimson swimmer, said it was because they understood "the most important thing is being a part of the team...