Worryingly, even colonies given the high dose may have got off lightly compared with their wild brethren.
At first blush, it looks like Linderer got off lightly a mere 7-month suspension without a fine.
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Despite the record fine, Goldman shares rose by 4.5%, reflecting the fact that many analysts felt the firm had got off lightly.
One person who seems to have got off lightly in all this is the Socialist Party chairman and foreign minister, Laszlo Kovacs.
He confessed and got off lightly, with a fine or confiscation.
One reason Mr Yanukovich got off lightly, perhaps, was his pledge to get rid of highly enriched uranium, given at a nuclear-security summit in Washington, DC, in April.
There was no appeal on that ruling, but the International Rugby Union has pledged to review its punishments for such offenses in the wake of criticism that the player got off lightly.
Even so, some vineyards got off lightly.
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And although the economic crisis has hit financial services hard, the city as a whole has got off relatively lightly.
The general consensus among international bureaucrats is that in Mexico, and so far in Thailand, foreign lenders and investors have got off too lightly.
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