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Meanwhile, Israeli closure of the PA's borders further punishes the Palestinian economy.
Female recruits have been routinely raped, humiliated, and harassed, but they rarely complain, because the military punishes few male offenders.
But, say USAT and the WP , many Democrats, including President Clinton, think the bill punishes people who've fallen on hard times while not holding the credit card issuers responsible for promiscuous marketing.
Boycotts lower corporate profits, which punishes not the discriminatory management but the innocent stockholders--that is, not the sinners, but their victims.
The hero, Peter (Ron Livingston), an engineer at a generic software company, is suffocating under his boss, Lunbergh (Gary Cole), a dictator who punishes underlings from behind a strenuously mellow affect--each demand or rebuke prefaced by a seemingly upbeat "Yyyyeah."