Word: reprimands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...come with his civilian interpreter to join in the jolly burghers' celebration. But, to his dismay, he thought he detected a lack of strategic support on Miss Nelson's person. Though there is no written rule on the matter, the Army sent her a flat letter of reprimand...
Joseph Grande, executive secretary of the Providence teachers' union. Teachers complain bitterly, too, that even if they do press charges, either school administrations do not support them or offenders get off with a reprimand in juvenile court. "These kids know that nothing is going to happen to them," says Paul Hauge, a teacher in Des Moines's Harding Junior High School who was slugged in the face earlier this year by a 200-lb. student. "They're juveniles. Suspension is merely a three-to ten-day vacation. Even if they're expelled, they're entitled...
...pieced together detailed accounts of Peking's struggle with trade deficits, and chronicled the attempts of Mao's successors to revise the Chairman's teachings. For his enterprise, Munro was pointedly dropped from a government press trip to Tibet this summer. Two months ago, he received a rare official reprimand for "maliciously slandering Chairman Mao and the Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua"?though he was never told exactly how he had offended...
Munro may now be in line for another reprimand. The cause: a stinging seven-part series on human rights in China?or the lack of them?that has run in the Globe and seven U.S. dailies. In this series, Munro's China appears as an Orwellian hell where a citizen can still be executed merely for "preaching counterrevolutionary slogans," where freedom of movement and career choice are all but nonexistent, and where authorities discriminate against relatives of former petty landowners. In one telling vignette, Munro writes of a man who insists that local postal clerks read his letters...
...know why Antonelli was supended, some of his supporters hint the department's action was little more than a slap on the wrist, a face-saving move designed to end the political firestorm as quickly as possible. They contend that the supervisor did not deserve a suspension but the reprimand was an easy way to avert a long investigation. Two weeks ago The Real Paper--like Vellucci, a staunch advocate of rent control--lashed out at the Globe report as "sleazy journalism." The "Spotlight Team," it noted, trailed Vellucci for only one day and failed to report that he legitimately...