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He prods fellow justices to turn in draft decisions promptly and penalizes tardy colleagues by withholding new assignments.
The federal tax code , as well as many state tax systems, favors marriages in which one spouse earns most of or all the income, and penalizes those in which income is equally or nearly equally split between the partners.
There are two sets of user input adjustable parameters for this method: the choice of the time "breakpoints" for the B-spline function, and the value of the smoothing parameter that "penalizes" the fits that have too sharp a curvature (see Methods for details).
A story argues that suburban sprawl penalizes urban residents.
Our current method only penalizes people for making more money.