Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote, which was intended both to punish Shamir and to mollify the Arab states aligned with the U.S. against Iraq, offered the strongest indication yet that the gulf crisis may gradually forge a new U.S. approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Frosty stares and stiff messages between Washington and Jerusalem are hardly rarities. But the gulf crisis is fundamentally altering American interests and alliances, strengthening ties to Arab states that will expect more evenhandedness from Washington in return. Officials in Jerusalem and Washington -- one side in fear, the other in hope -- are privately predicting that if Bush prevails against Iraq...
Robert M. Sweeney of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities said the bill may unfairly punish schools in areas with high crime rates, and Merkowitz suggested that schools in urban areas may be put at a disadvantage because of this discrepancy...
...Peninsula council member Chris G.Vergonis '92 said that the only way the Collegecould prevent wholesale theft of magazines in thefuture was to punish the student involved withthis month's incident...
...Kuwait's resistance can in no way stand up to Iraq's Goliath force. In the past few days, Iraqi forces have taken severe measures to collectively "punish" the Kuwaiti people. Such measures include: obliterating an entire residential area, blasting and burning houses, and holding public executions of Kuwaitis...
...government. The rebel factions have indicated their support for this, and small wonder. The proposal would achieve their main goal -- removal of Hun Sen's government -- at least until elections were held, and would replace his regime with an outside government that would be virtually powerless to punish cease-fire violations. Moreover, U.N. bureaucrats could serve as yet another foreign enemy against which the xenophobic Khmer Rouge could rally popular opinion. Hun Sen has predictably refused to dismantle his government, which was installed by the Vietnamese army in 1979 to replace the genocidal Khmer Rouge...