Word: reprimands
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...CLEAR from the play's onset that Hal regards Sam as a 40-year-old younger brother whom he can impress and teach and argue with. Willie joins the conviviality, but when the playfulness strikes a sensitive chord. Hal quickly reproaches him. Whereas Willie accepts the reprimand as a cowering child. Sam regards it half-seriously, as a request rather than a demand. He refuses to be treated like anything but an equal, and here the conflict begins to develop...
...term repercussions, political as well as environmental. Vasilyev bluntly accused officials, presumably those in charge of designing and managing the potash plant, of ignoring two warnings from inspectors who had demanded improvements in the dam. Criminal charges, he said, had been brought against eight culprits. Implicit in this public reprimand (which follows official reports of bureaucratic bungling in the recent trapping of 40 Soviet ships in the Arctic ice) is a clear warning: the Kremlin will not continue to tolerate the blatant disregard of laws involving the environment or public safety...
...party came from the loudmouthed comedian's boyfriend, Howard Rose, an architect and dues-paying Friar, and she began working on her disguise a month ago. "I thought they would have a sense of humor about it," says Diller. But the club's brass, which may reprimand Rose, found the stunt a drag in every way. Club Director Jean-Pierre Trebot vows to "increase security." How? Well, he concedes, "we're not about to frisk everybody...
Watt's bigotry deserves reprimand, as does his penchant for offensive rhetoric. But why haven't Watt's strip-mining, oil-drilling, wilderness-plundering tendencies prompted an earlier scandal? Why don't Watt's reprehensible actions provoke the same level of public outrage...
...reprimand-an official statement of disapproval-is the House's mildest form of punishment for serious misconduct by members. The committee found that in both cases the sex had not been coerced. Still, it made the obvious point that "any sexual relationship between a member of the House of Representatives and a congressional page, or any sexual advance by a member to a page, represents a serious breach of duty." Given the "special responsibility" of Congress toward the young, vulnerable pages, said Joseph Califano Jr., special counsel to the committee, which is also probing drug use on the Hill...