Word: punishingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MESD hearing also brought out the possibility that Harvard used the new policy to punish Sylvia Gallagher, a shop steward in Eliot House, for union-related activities. Last spring, Gallagher led a noon-time walkout of members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union 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. Several weeks later, Harvard offered Gallagher only a part-time summer job, that Gallagher's legal agent says could...
...effort to finish off the resistance. So far its main achievement has been to terrorize innocent civilians. MiG fighter-bombers have napalmed entire villages near Angola's border with Namibia (South West Africa); herds of cattle have been slaughtered, not only to feed the attacking forces but to punish the pro-UNlTA tribesmen...
...Chicago and Detroit and Louisville and Washington is a plea to an outdated sentiment and an appeal to ignorance. We hear politicians saying along with the rabble and the hatemongers that to enforce rules which would provide quality education, quality housing, equal employment and social justice would be to punish the white people of America. The deep-down prejudices of too many people are being dragged to the surface and in the process submerging rational consideration and thought and understanding. What we face today is not only the same fight we have been waging for years, but the additional task...
...Faculty established the CRR to punish political protesters in the wake of the 1969 student occupation of University Hall, and students refused to serve on it, objecting to what they saw as its unfair composition and procedures...
...tool: the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statutes (RICO). Originally aimed at the Mafia, the laws provide for the seizure of certain of a convicted offender's assets in addition to fines and prison terms. The aim: to put the defrauders out of business as well as punish them...