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This is where the ambiguous word working takes on another meaning. The U.S. and its coalition are not seeking simply to punish Iraq by destroying its economy. They have pledged to force Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait. It is impossible for anyone on either side of the debate to prove that slow deterioration, no matter how prolonged, will accomplish that objective. As the U.S. learned recently in its dealings with Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, even wide-ranging sanctions may not coerce a conscienceless dictator...
MacPhee also suggested there was an element of hypocrisy to the plaintiffs' efforts to punish him for asking the court to move the case out of Boston...
...woman's lawyers asserted that the motion to transfer the trial to another part of the state was brought in "bad faith" and is an attempt to punish the woman for bringing the suit...
...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...