Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jones legal team, whose deposition of the President set off the entire impeachment avalanche, had asked for nearly $500,000. But Judge Wright said the sanctions were "not imposed to punish" but rather to compensate for actual loss. Although Clinton?s lawyers said the penalty should be much lower, on the order of $33,737, they accepted the judge's ruling. "Judge Wright has always made clear that if Clinton wanted to litigate her contempt findings, he risked opening up a whole can of worms," says TIME magazine White House correspondent Jay Branegan. No one at the White House likes...
...although Clark has struggled offensively, his size--the six foot, six inch, 215-pound forward is the biggest member of the team--allows him to punish opponents...
...they are the model for future wars by the U.S. Religious and racial conflicts are bubbling over around the globe. During this presidency alone, the Pentagon has stumbled painfully into clan warfare in Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia. In such conflicts, $2 billion B-2 bombers may be able to punish from the air but it takes G.I. boots on the ground to secure the peace. And according to the doctrine of the former Joint Chiefs Chairman, General Colin Powell, America should always go into these conflicts as the biggest, baddest force on the block. Go in to win, Powell said...
...Belgrade embassy bombing. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering?s account of how the "tragic mistake" occurred was dismissed Thursday by China?s Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan as "unconvincing and unacceptable." He demanded that Washington come up with something more than the out-of-date-map explanation, and "severely punish" the individuals responsible before Beijing would consider resuming military and trade talks with...
...idle for 3 1/2 years at the peak of his career. In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled that the government had acted improperly. But Ali bore the commissions no ill will. There were no lawsuits to get his title back through the courts. No need, he said, to punish them for doing what they thought was right. Quite properly, in his mind, he won back the title in the ring, knocking out George Foreman in the eighth round of their fight in Zaire--the "Rumble in the Jungle...