Word: sterne
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...penalty was a stern warning to financial journalists who may be tempted to trade on inside information. In a Manhattan courtroom, Federal Judge Charles Stewart last week sentenced J. Foster Winans, 37, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who had been convicted of 59 counts of fraud and conspiracy, to a $5,000 fine, 18 months in prison and five years on probation...
...government had more stern words when seven clergymen of various races from the Dutch Reformed Church proposed to travel to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, to meet with the outlawed African National Congress. Botha responded with anger. "The government has expressed its strong viewpoint on discussions with the A.N.C., which is a murderous organization," a spokesman for his office said. The government had raised a furor a week earlier when it seized the passports of eight Afrikaner students who had scheduled a trip to Lusaka, and it was widely expected that some similar action would be taken against the seven...
...sometimes become addicted to drugs or alcohol. A West German newspaper reported that four Soviet soldiers who were on maneuvers in Czechoslovakia last year sold their tank to a tavern owner for two cases of vodka. Such abuses are exactly the kind that Gorbachev has singled out for stern corrective measures in his own country. He is unlikely to ignore them among the Soviet Union's military allies. --By John Moody. Reported by Kenneth W. Banta/Sofia
...strolled out the long way from the Vatican walls to have another, closer look at the Santa Marta hotel where the Cardinals will be lodging. The sliding glass doors opened for me, but I only had time enough to glance at the entrance and lobby area before a stern-faced women, who had been chatting with two nuns, curtly told me I had to leave at once...
...some soul searching in the '80s. The resemblance to The Big Chill is impossible to miss: characters reminisce about antiwar rallies and ponder the implications of "getting caught up in the mainstream." Despite its glib predictability, the series boasts a likable cast, headed by Jane Kaczmarek and Daniel Stern, and at least a veneer of seriousness missing from most other summer entries...