Word: punishingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan convinced no one. Pretoria, it was now clear, was not about to let SWAPO come to power, even in free elections. That means a long-term military commitment by South Africa in Namibia?and a dilemma for the U.S. and Britain, who will face pressure to punish South Africa's recalcitrance with economic sanctions. British private investment in South Africa totals $10 billion, while trade amounts to $3 billion. The U.S. has more than $2 billion in trade and $1.5 billion in private investment...
...Shah, facing the gravest threat to his throne in a quarter of a century, moved swiftly to quell the opposition that has been building against his regime over the past nine months. His policy was twofold: 1) to punish corrupt officials and subversives and 2) to demonstrate convincingly that Tehran's springtime of political liberalization, begun only a month ago, would continue...
...reformer's morality has always taught that the main objective of punishment is ulterior: to deter or rehabilitate. In this design, punishment should not do the one thing it says it will do-punish. It is not to make the criminal suffer, to make him feel the force of society's anger for his deed. It is surely not communal revenge...
...punishment should be punishment before it is anything else. If it does deter other potential criminals or rehabilitate the convicted, then that should be greeted as a pleasant surprise. The first business, without being bloodthirsty about it, is to keep society's contract with itself and punish a crime as it promised it would. Author C.S. Lewis has pointed out the totalitarian possibilities in treating criminals as sick people who need to be cured: "If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call...
...little ice with Trautwein. "The case is being tried; a man is charged with murder . . . You still say Myron Farber should be the judge," said Trautwein indignantly. All he was asking, the judge continued, was "to let us take a little peek." So impatient was Trautwein to punish Farber, 40, and the Times that he began handing down sentences before pronouncing them guilty. Realizing his mistake, Trautwein declared sheepishly, "I'm putting the cart before the horse." Then he slapped both the paper and the reporter with stiff coercive civil and punitive criminal contempt sentences: a fine...