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None of the above. Officials at the Marshall Space Center recently announced that the maximum "fee reduction" which Morton-Thiokol would receive is $10 million. That's one-tenth of Ivan Boesky's fine. It's not nearly severe enough to be called a slap on the wrist...
...didn't kill anyone. But what seems obscured by the financial community, and perhaps even the press, is that he is a common--or rather, uncommon--criminal who is barely even getting slapped on the wrist...
...time being, Ivan will just have to incarcerate himself at his $10 million estate and continue to play with an inordinate sum of money. Unfortunately, the $100 million slap on the wrist will not prevent him from playing squash. At best his concentration could be broken by the pending lawsuits and an outbreak of public fury...
Perhaps a social stigma now attaches to digital watches. People see you walking around with a bunch of numbers on your wrist and they get the idea that maybe you couldn't tell time otherwise. Never got the hang of it in school. Like reading with your finger tracing the words, guiding your eye. Who wants to be seen carrying a crutch on his wrist...
...other purpose was punishment, but this too has been eroded. Short terms in jail are a message to the convicted murderer that if he gets caught, society will only slap him on the wrist and let him back on the streets...