21.   Gore sued and convinced the jury that the company should be punished.

22.   He called on Congress to act quickly to pass legislation giving women the ability to punish companies that allow pay disparity to continue.

23.   He said he would wait until he has heard what employees have to say before deciding whether to punish the company.

24.   Helms is a sponsor of the Helms-Burton Act, legislation passed by Congress intended to punish foreign companies doing business with Cuba.

25.   Her cause of the moment is a bill that would punish foreign companies found to be investing in or selling equipment to Libya or Iran.

26.   However, Bowles also said the bill would have to be improved in various areas, particularly in how it punishes companies for not reducing smoking among teen-agers.

27.   His order, which goes into effect immediately, would punish companies by disqualifying them from federal contracts for one year.

28.   In any case, diplomats said, several Security Council members have business links with Iraq and are quite unlikely to punish companies from their countries.

29.   In fact, during the first quarter, it was downright ugly as impatient investors punished companies like Project.

30.   Investors immediately punished the company.