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...program counsels victims of domestic violence and provides stiffer penalties for offenders...
Violation of the injunction could result in stiffer fines, up to $10,000 and up to ten years in prison, in the case of a repeat incident...
...participant, while he moved around the green with a bag of balls, a putter and a pair of wedges. "It's hard to justify our diplomacy when our diplomacy isn't showing much," he complained loudly. Within days, the White House announced his decision to press for a stiffer NATO response to Serb aggression. Clinton is skilled with a driver and loves nothing more than to put his weight into his swing and blast a ball 250 yds. off the tee. His weakness is his short game and a tendency to "chili dip"-mishit the ball on chip shots...
...April the Sentencing Commission, by a 4 to 3 vote, recommended that base sentences for crack and cocaine be equalized. Even so, the playing field would not be entirely leveled. Under the proposed guidelines, drug sales involving weapons, violence or perpetrators who have significant criminal records would receive stiffer sentences. Thus, the Commission notes, "crack offenders will receive sentences generally at least twice as long as those for powder cocaine offenders involved with the same amount of drugs...
...service, a black woman got up to say she believes in miracles because the last of several boys in her family was graduating from college, despite the fact that so many young black men are on drugs, in jail or dead. Stroupe also changed Oakhurst's music, switching from stiffer Presbyterian hymns to songs from the black gospel tradition. At first the choir director resisted, purposefully playing off tune during gospel hymns. Now the church has its own mostly black gospel choir. No one in it knows how to read music, but they learn songs "by ear" and sing them...