Word: punishingly
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...understandable that Big Tobacco settled with states - taking its future immunity, raising prices and running - instead of challenging whether the states really deserved to reimbursed. And it?s equally understandable that governments, faced with (dubious) evidence that higher per-pack prices reduce youth smoking, would want to punish Big Tobacco for marketing to teens...
...response of politicians to the outcry over racial profiling amounts to a lawmaking jamboree. Congress is considering the End Racial Profiling Act, which would force local police to record the race of everyone subjected to a traffic or pedestrian stop and to punish officers who rely on race when deciding whether to stop someone. Thirteen states and hundreds of localities have enacted legislation designed to reduce or at least study racial profiling. Bills are pending in at least 12 other states. Everyone from Attorney General John Ashcroft, long a conservative on race issues, to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, long...
Global superpowers aren't supposed to feel powerless. But despite its hegemony, the U.S. could not stop the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen, and last week the Bush Administration all but admitted that it is unable--or unwilling--to punish the crime's masterminds. Even though Attorney General John Ashcroft said the attack was "inspired, supported and supervised" by Iran, none of the 14 people indicted were Iranian. The indictment does allege that an Iranian military officer directed the Saudis' pre-bombing surveillance activities, and U.S. officials tell TIME...
...That nature should punish a country that tries so hard to serve it seems deeply unfair. But in 1998, El NiNo warmed the seas, bleaching and killing much of the fantastical underwater coral. Fears surfaced that the rainbows of multicolored reef fish and legions of turtles, sharks and manta rays that made the Maldives a high point of the diving world would depart for richer shores. In the end, the fish stayed and the coral is now growing back. But global climate changes remain a concern. The Maldives stretch 800 km, but less than 300 sq km is land...
...fans on both sides of the Pacific. In the U.S., the outfielder, a virtual shoo-in as this season's rookie of the year, has already graced the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine. In Japan, legions of fans tune in at odd hours each day to watch their hero punish North American pitching. NHK broadcasts each Mariners game back to Japan and, between innings, focuses obsessively on Suzuki as he jogs, stretches, tosses a warm-up ball...