Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jeopardize one's employment. People should not act in such ways. We have worked hard to arrive at a point where we take seriously threats to the mental equilibrium of a worker. A dignified work relationship requires reserve and courtesy. Simple human decency forbids the exercise of power to punish one who refuses to become the victim of the desires of another person. BENET DAVETIAN Montreal...
Some legislators are appalled at the idea of exporting tobacco. California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi says, "How can we possibly say smoking is deadly for our kids but O.K. for foreign children?" Hollings and Ford argue that America has no right to dictate to other countries. Why punish American suppliers, they reason, when most of the $262 billion in world tobacco revenues winds up in the coffers of state-owned monopolies...
...China's most celebrated early exponents of cynicism and realpolitik, the fearsome 4th century B.C. administrator Shang Yang. Mao took Shang Yang's experiences as emblematic of China's crisis. Shang Yang had instituted a set of ruthlessly enforced laws, designed "to punish the wicked and rebellious, in order to preserve the rights of the people." That the people continued to fear Shang Yang was proof to Mao they were "stupid." Mao attributed this fear and distrust not to Shang Yang's policies but to the perception of those policies: "At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary...
...original oppressors were still around, maybe this would be a good solution, to punish those who are at fault. However, this is not the case. This problem is a multi-generational one. Also, selecting people according to race, sex or any other innate quality is ridiculous. Ability in the field should be the determining factor, never uncontrollable primordial ties...
...much prosecutorial discretion and interfere with the way parents maintain control over their households, adding more grief, for example, after accidental fatal firings. Joe Sudbay, director of state legislation at Handgun Control Inc. in Washington, says that's nonsense: "The whole point of these laws is not to punish. The point is to prevent." Do they? According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last October, unintentional deaths dropped 23% among children younger than 15 years old in the years covered by CAP laws...