Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unceremonious dumping fuels suspicion that the White House is worried that voters will punish the President in 1992 unless he delivers on his promises. "This is a new start to Bush's efforts to become the education President," says Chester Finn Jr., a Reagan-era Assistant Secretary of Education. "The department is waiting for real leadership...
...shortcomings of the congressional hearings, together with the latest ruling, suggest that the day of congressional hearings starring criminal suspects is passing. Says House Republican leader Bob Michel: "Congress ought to suppress its interest in public hearings if you want people to go to jail." Presumably, legislators want to punish the guilty at least as much as they covet the publicity yielded by splashy scandal investigations...
...find it unbelievable that anyone can beat offensive and tiresome "fat" jokes into the ground week after week, but worse still, the message is beaten into our subconscious. Let us hope that Harvard students can resist the temptation to punish others for their body types. Such prejudice should be considered as cruel as racism or homophobia. Martha K. Taylor '92 Skyler Vinton '92 Co-Directors Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach, (ECHO...
...earnest people try to understand the complex forces at work and calculate the potential costs, human and material, of going to war. Until the Administration makes clear whether its goal is to defend Saudi Arabia, or protect the flow of oil, or free Kuwait, or crush Saddam, or punish aggression, or all of these, the public may not be able to find much justice in the cause -- or judge whether it is a goal worth dying...
...electoral process. Hate mongering, deception and mudslinging are all widely deplored, and then used to great effect. How can voters fail to be cynical when politicians buy their jobs by selling favors and use the money to ensure that voters don't get much of a chance to punish them? Public opinion surveys around the nation registered disgust and sorrow at the processes by which lawmakers are elected and through which they govern. As long as American politics drifts away from democracy's dreams, the voters' only real choice will...