1.   An Israeli citrus company has become the third target of the Helms-Burton Act, the federal law that punishes foreign companies that do business with Cuba.

2.   And the result, he added, will be greater and greater demand to punish the companies economically.

3.   And they are quite willing to punish companies that have unexpected bad news.

4.   And, they said, the need to punish their companies with punitive damages was past.

5.   Bill Gates needs to respond with something better than disingenuous countercharges that his company is being punished for its success.

6.   Boeing executives have said the company is being punished by China as part of the U.S.-China trade dispute.

7.   A demand by the labor representatives, that companies be punished if they continue to discriminate, was not adopted.

8.   A senior British diplomat says the American effort to punish foreign companies for doing business in Iran is wholly unacceptable.

9.   Actual damages typically include medical expenses and lost wages, while punitive damages are imposed by juries to punish companies for particularly outrageous behavior.

10.   But he quickly turned serious, calling for policies to help unions organize and punish companies that violate labor laws.