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Opening with a female silhouette walking away from a punitive "personnel" sign, it follows her unsteady progress down a flight of stairs and uses a staccato colloquy between her colleagues to dramatize the injustice:
In general, members were reluctant to share information due to concerns that an inadvertent release of this type of information could damage reputations; lower customer confidence; provide an advantage to competitors; and possibly negatively affect members' businesses and lead to punitive measures against an individual member or a member organization.
The Reagan administration was, I think, gratuitously punitive toward some of the poorest and most desperate welfare recipients and put much too much of the burden of its supposed deficit reduction on the backs of those least able to afford it (and on programs so meagerly funded that their contribution to deficit reduction was meaningless in any case).
( Late Edition ), Alan Murray (PBS's Washington Week in Review ), and Juan Williams ( Fox )--predict that any punitive action will come after the market has already broken up Microsoft's monopoly anyway.
Bob Barr, R-Ga.) Yet it must be punitive enough that Republicans will be satisfied.