Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students who were observing the trial and two defendants who chose not to take part in the uprising. Throughout the night, the terrorists continued releasing hostages. By late Friday morning only four remained: Presiding Judge Dominique Bailhache, two assistant judges and a prosecutor. Then Courtois, handcuffed at the wrist to Bailhache, emerged from the courthouse and, with judge in tow, paced up and down for almost half an hour. At one point he yelled angrily to police and journalists, "Go away, I don't want to see you." He then fired four shots toward the crowd, sending the onlookers sprawling...
...board's recent actions seem to be symptomatic of the general tenor of its activities this past summer and fall. After slapping 10 students on the wrist for their participation in the sit-in at 17 Quincy Street last fall, the ad board undertook to prosecute students who signed a letter of solidarity with the 10 who were inside the building. It also placed a warning in a weekly law school publication threatening more severe discipline for future illegalities...
Since the CRR began what has turned into a five-month saga, other disciplinary bodies have judged and levied decisions for cases involving their students in one incident. It took the Law School's Administrative Board three weeks to give 10 law students official slaps on the wrist for their participation in a sit-in last April. The Graduate School of Education quietly took care of one student in much the same manner last spring...
When 10 Law School students were given official slaps on the wrist for their participation in an anti-apartheid sit-in last April, campus activists breathed a sigh of relief. The sit-in had been orderly, and the school's Administrative Board had quietly and expeditiously levied the mildest form of discipline...
Consumer groups were outraged with the light fine, calling it "a slap on the wrist." Said Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Washington-based Public Citizen Health Research Group: "We believe the company intentionally withheld information from the FDA and there should have been a felony charge. Their top ) executive could have been fined $150,000 and spent 45 years in jail." Last week's action ended the Government's case against Lilly. But the firm cannot put Oraflex behind it since scores of civil suits in the U.S. and Britain must still be resolved...