Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COLLEGE OFFICIALS last week announced they will no longer sanction "senior bars," the yearly parties seniors throw for each other in honor of their imminent departure from Harvard. The administrators claim the parties are "disruptive" and encourage underage drinking in violation of University alcohol policy...
...Jerry Cosentino closed state accounts at the American National Bank of Chicago, in which about $485 million is deposited annually. The bank had refused to lower its credit-card interest rate from 19.8% to about 14%. American National was the second Illinois bank to be hit with such a sanction by Cosentino...
...official visits that have taken place fully sanction Jaruzelski's new role as full head of state...
...goal is a society with fewer criminals, then firm judgments are even harder to draw. Criminology is a dispiriting science. Its practitioners commonly caution that no criminal sanction, no matter how strict, no matter how lenient, seems to have much impact on the crime rate. But prison does at least keep criminals off the street. Home confinement cannot guarantee that security. Some data, tentative and incomplete, do suggest, however, that felons placed on intensive probation are less likely to commit crimes again than those placed on traditional probation or sent to prison. Joan Petersilia, a Rand Corp. researcher, says...
...President and his advisers agree that the U.S. should pursue channels to Iran, but cannot sanction further arms sales...