Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson's stances toward the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition, expressed in Patrick Chung's column ("Sloppy Slap Shot," Opinion, September 23) and a staff editorial on September 25, invariably start with a firm reminder of why PUCC's reformist project is necessary. Chung acknowledges that the Undergraduate Council, the only body able in theory to speak on behalf of all the members of the College, "is just another extra-curricular activity" and "suffers from a lack of legitimacy." He also allows that the council's illegitimacy stems in part from the fact that "[it] is a bastion of white males...
...good job. After putting in the long, tedious hours, after experiencing the gut-wrenching fear of another dangerous arrest, and after completing mountains of paperwork, it is disheartening to go into the courtroom and see the now clean-shaven defendant, wearing a suit and tie, walk out with a slap on the wrist. In U.S. society now everyone is a victim, and no one is responsible. Police work, just like every other profession, has its share of questionable people. Where money, power and greed are prevalent, cops, attorneys, bankers, politicians and others will be tempted by the easy...
...surely it would have been insensitive to hold the conference in Brazil, where wife murderers routinely get off with a slap of the hand...or India, where the number of women killed by husbands and in-laws eager to collect a second dowry is more than 6,000 a year and growing...or Bangladesh, where a fatwah remains in force against writer Taslima Nasreen...or Ireland, where divorce is still prohibited no matter how violent and life-threatening the marriage...
What had been a slap on the wrist became something a little more forceful as the Air Force re-examined the accidental downing of two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq. An earlier Air Force criminal inquiry brought charges against only one officer, and he was acquitted on all counts. A new report by General Ronald Fogleman, the Air Force Chief of Staff, cites two generals for poor judgment and failure to uphold Air Force standards; five airmen were barred from airborne assignments for at least three years. Twenty-six people died in the 1994 "friendly fire" tragedy, including...
...Vocal minorities, in the name of politicalcorrectness, are pressuring...institutions toforce ROTC off campuses--often campuses receivinglarge amounts of taxpayer support," amendment'sother co-sponsor, said on the House floor. "Thisis outrageous. It is a slap at the honor anddignity of service in our nation's military...