Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Assistant Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger learned firsthand on a trip through Europe to drum up support for the sanctions, the Europeans are opposed to punishing the Soviet Union unless it openly intervenes in Poland. At the heart of the allied opposition is the belief that sanctions, no matter how well meaning, do not work. As one Italian politician noted cynically, "Carter adopted sanctions against the Soviets to get them out of Afghanistan. They still are in Afghanistan." Said a British trade official: "Trade is a very difficult sanction to apply; like water, it will always find a way through...
...agreement vests all legal responsibility in the student government and "just lets the University off the hook," Terry Nolan, student government president, said, adding that under the agreement, all film advertisements must include a disclaimer stating the "the University does not sponsor" or sanction the showing of the film...
...that the Court drop Dayan's case for lack of evidence, Curry sided strongly with the French entrepreneur. "Given the high level intrigue and high level entry within this major corporation that the Dayan suit provoked, I am satisfied that a prima facie case has been made. With the sanction of termination so extreme and heavy, the court should not deny the fullest range of testimony...
...Crimson today recommends a slap on the wrist for the doctors who went to Hussain's aid, and there is virtually no chance that the men will ever face a greater sanction. But it will take more than censure to convince the four doctors and their colleagues that the fraternity of medicine is not inviolate and that the general public will intercede when "medical ethics" fail...
...French unity, a unity that has lasted ten centuries, and in the framework of the constructive activity of the new European order, that today I am embarking on the path of collaboration," Marshal Petain told Hitler in October 1940. Not only did the nation's most honored military leader sanction cooperation, but common sense seemed to dictate it--instead of provoking the Germans into demolishing France, why not muddle through and hope for the best under the seemingly inevitable Nazi domination...