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Cutting the corporate tax would break the standard New Jersey practice of offering huge tax incentives to specific businesses while punishing the rest with high rates.

By doing so, he made clear that he was punishing Mr. Combs for conduct the jury didn’t find to be a crime.

The chorus’s wild vacillations—celebrating Amina, then punishing her and then trying to clear her name—fit with their efforts to bring her to heel.

Canada-US Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said last week that "progress" is being made toward an agreement, and media reports suggest there may be some relief from the punishing US steel tariffs to come.

She questions whether her career was really worth sacrificing her privacy, her sanity and even her health, as punishing live shows exacerbated her fibromyalgia, a condition that cause chronic, full-body pain.