Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C. "I cannot allow my fund-raising to be tied in any way to specific votes," freshman Rep. John Hostettler has defiantly told Newt Gingrich in a letter. The House Speaker had abruptly cancelled plans to attend a Hostettler fundraiser to punish the Indiana Republican, who had bucked Gingrich's emotional appeal to vote to end the federal shutdown two weeks ago. Gingrich later offered to reschedule the event, but Hostettler rebuffed him, saying, "I am today declining your unsolicited offer to attend a fundraiser in Southwestern Indiana to benefit my re-election." Not all is lost in this...
...prissy about absolute fairness, to expect that Newt and his cohort would not reward followers and punish foes. On the other hand, by not demanding some sacrifice from his own supporters, Gingrich and his movement risk being seen as just another engine of interest-group politics, albeit a different set of interest groups. Bill Bennett, the former Education Secretary and maven of the Republican moralists, worries about this. "What's come across quite clearly is that we Republicans are smart and serious and that we are going to shrink the government. What hasn't come across...
...raised an uproar on the college scene by composing an email message that was offensive to women and that included curse words. The email, which was widely distributed, led many to call for official action to be taken against the authors. In the end, Cornell's administration didn't punish the four freshman, but it perhaps would have been forced to if the indecency bill had been law at the time of the incident. In addition, the four authors might have faced federal charges for writing what was essentially a private communication between them and their friends. The reason...
...World War II, when the U.S. was the sole possessor of atomic weapons and the U.N. Charter was being written. All the peace-loving countries would band together, the theory went, with the five permanent members of the Security Council in the lead. They would punish any nation that dared launch an aggressive war. That scenario was played out in Korea, but never thereafter until the Gulf War, which followed the breakup of the U.S.S.R...
...cracking down on the bank, U.S. officials sought to punish Daiwa without worsening Japan's year-long financial crisis or generating new tensions between the two countries. Just last month the Federal Reserve agreed to help rescue U.S. branches of Japanese banks if a bailout is required. But Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was furious at Daiwa for waiting six weeks to notify U.S. authorities of Iguchi's illegal activities; the trader told the bank about them in a letter in July. Rubin vented some of that ire last month in a 20-minute phone conversation with Japanese Finance Minister Masayoshi...