Word: harshness
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...Vikings held out in their harsh Greenland outposts for several centuries, but by 1450 they were gone. One reason was climate change. Starting about 1350, global temperatures entered a 500-year slump known as the Little Ice Age. Norse hunting techniques and agriculture were inadequate for survival in this long chill, and the Vikings never adapted the Inuit's more effective strategies for the cold...
...likeliest reason for this interspecies togetherness was the harsh climate. Observes Berglund: "The temperature today gets as cold as -50[degrees]C [-58 (degrees) F]." Bones recovered from trash middens in the house indicate that the occupants dined mostly on wild caribou and seals, which were plentiful along the coast. (The domesticated animals were apparently raised for their wool and milk, not meat.) Scientists recovered more than 3,000 artifacts in the ruins, including a wooden loom, children's toys and combs. Along with hair, body lice and animal parasites, these items will be invaluable in determining what each room...
...jobs and a complete education; they also have grave consequences for juveniles who are now subject to the harsher sentencing guidelines passed by states over the last decade. When the penalties are greater, the effects of discrimination in the juvenile justice system fall even heavier on minorities. Harsh penalties for juveniles only compound the discrimination this report exposes...
While a breakup is a harsh punishment, it is unclear whether anything weaker would effectively deter Microsoft from continuing its monopolistic practices. Conduct remedies that left Microsoft structurally intact but placed rules on its behavior would likely be evaded by the software giant; the antitrust case grew out of Microsoft's circumvention of a consent decree not to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows. Imposing permanent regulations on Microsoft's actions would thus require constant judicial monitoring (and constant appeals from Microsoft) to ensure compliance...
...staff is too harsh in recommending that Microsoft be broken up. The computer industry is very different from a traditional industry. Technology monopolies are extremely tenuous. But, furthermore, they are necessary. In order for third parties to write new software, a standard platform must be established to write to. Otherwise small applications developers will suffer by being forced to take on the additional costs of writing for multiple platforms...