Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ouster of Zhao, who was rumored to be under house arrest, was the most telling proof of a rift in the leadership between conservatives and reformers. According to some sources, Zhao offered to resign when his proposals to + accommodate the students were rejected by the Politburo Standing Committee, the highest policymaking body of the Communist Party. Others in Beijing claim that the party chief's fall, which could well presage a purge of other liberal reformers, came partly because of remarks he made during a remarkable predawn visit with Li to the hunger strikers on Friday...
...time the cells Bush wants to build are ready, the federal convict population will have grown to 84,000, which is 17,000 more than the expanded system is designed to accommodate. Study after study has shown that only a fraction of all reported crimes result in arrest, and only a fraction of those people arrested are sent to prison. During the past three decades, there have never been more than six imprisonments for every 100 reported crimes. Even doubling the current prison population, which would cost more than $43 billion, would leave the chance of a prospective criminal...
...Harvard police patrolling Harvard Square find four drunk, apparently homeless people on the Holyoke Center grates. After a computer check, officers learn one of the men faces an arrest warrant in Barnstable, Mass. The 41-year-old is handcuffed and taken to a waiting cruiser...
...Police claim they are "blinded" by a flash from a Crimson photographer's camera as they make an arrest. Officers seize bursar's cards from the photographer, as well as a reporter. The officers, one of whom is wearing sunglasses, say that their safety is jeopardized when they cannot see properly. One officer suggests that the arrest should not be of interest to Harvard students. Another says that 40 to 50 percent of the homeless are armed...
...create prenatal police patrols for cocaine use, then where would they draw the line?" Opponents note that alcohol use, smoking and other kinds of maternal conduct have also been shown to damage fetuses. Says Paltrow: "For some women, standing on their feet all day is harmful. Will they arrest them...