Word: punishment
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Blix has the right to refer the dispute to the U.N. Security Council, which can punish a nuclear miscreant with sanctions that can range from a reprimand to an embargo, and ultimately to war. Three weeks ago, he told Washington he would begin the process this week if the North didn't start behaving. But the West decided to keep negotiating instead. "We're not talking in terms of a deadline," says an IAEA spokesman. Reason: fear of driving Pyongyang into a corner from which it would fight its way out. The North Koreans have threatened to resume plutonium reprocessing...
Several tutors also questioned the stringency of the new policy, but they said the new guidelines will only punish the most blatant violators because they are given considerable discretion in enforcing the policy...
...same day Marius called in the three teachers, he put out a memorandum withdrawing the proposal to expand class time and saying that "we do not punish people for not worshipping us." Teachers considered the memo bizarre and dishonest given his treatment of Kreisberg, Raymond and Finder...
...repeatedly emphasized the need for a free market system to "reward ability and performance and punish failure...
Free speech, as we all know, is anything but free. Universities must be resolved to punish those who stifle the rights of others. The messy, arduous task of sorting out who did what to whom and what penalties are to be meted out is not an enviable one. But the sweat of the administrators in control is just one of the tithes that have to be paid to prevent the foreclosure of the First Amendment by anyone with small, empty heads and large, empty sacks...