Word: punishment
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...landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace, and the creation of federal agencies to punish offending businesses added teeth to the legislation. But even with formal restraints lifted, the 30 percent wage gap between similarly-qualified black and white workers has shown no sign of closing over the past generation...
Beijing has continued to test atomic weapons, transferred nuclear-arms technology to Pakistan and sold missiles to Iran. Clinton is still deciding whether to impose certain economic sanctions on China to punish it for the Pakistan deal, as the law requires, or to waive such penalties as he has in similar circumstances. On the trade front, there is also disappointing news: estimates of the U.S. trade deficit with China range from $20 billion to $35 billion, depending on how Hong Kong transshipments are counted; moreover, Beijing has failed to vigorously enforce agreements with the U.S. that outlaw piracy of videos...
...From my point of view, we've turned the debate into a debate about people and about girls' lives and not just teen pregnancy and ways to punish girls," she says...
...Discretionary enforcement was out of hand," says NRC acting Inspector General Leo Norton, who investigates agency wrongdoing but has no power to punish. "We shouldn't have regulations on the books and then ignore or wink at them...
FAIR, UNFAIR, WHATEVER--THE FLAT TAX beats the present system! I for one am sick and tired of the unbelievable complexity of my annual tax returns simply because I earn money outside a regular payroll. Our current irs laws actually punish anyone for being even a little tempted toward ventures that show initiative or entrepreneurship. We definitely need change if we want the U.S. to be a capitalist stronghold. OMER NISLEY Hanna, Indiana...