Word: harshness
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...plots and raise their own livestock, an approach designed to appeal to the 6 million subsistence farmers who form the bulk of Cambodia's 9 million inhabitants. During the early years of Pol Pot's reign, they suffered far less than urbanites, who were sent to work under harsh conditions in the fields, where they died by the thousands...
Epps also expressed his dissatisfaction yesterday in response to allegations that S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural Affairs and Race Relations, was behind the harsh criticism Epps recently received from a student minority group...
...Helmsley is soon to be released, it may be because her consultant is able to dramatize the harsh treatment she has received in comparison with other tax evaders. As the judge was reminded in Helmsley's court filing, singer Willie Nelson was allowed to settle $15.6 million in unpaid taxes and penalties without any jail sentence at all, partly by agreeing to produce an album -- which he titled Who'll Buy My Memories: The IRS Tapes -- and turn all proceeds over to the government...
...Administration political aide, "the ball game for us is the economy, period. Unless we get the deficit down and health reform on track, we'll be out of here in '96, which is not our intention. There's one more election, and we mean to win it." A harsh but realistic verdict -- and one that will hold unless Clinton changes his mind again, a course of conduct with which this particular President is not exactly unfamiliar...
WITH VICTORY IN THE WAR ON DRUGS NOWHERE IN sight and prison populations bulging, the 1980s' lock-'em-up approach to drug crimes has come under increasing attack. Now Attorney General Janet Reno says she too wants to reconsider the harsh mandatory sentences legislated by drug-war hawks during the Reagan-Bush era. Reno announced a sweeping review of federal drug- punishment policies to determine if packing prisons with small-time offenders -- say, sentencing a 19-year-old courier to five years for transporting as little as five grams of crack -- makes sense or justice...