Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than a dozen Harvard Police officers responded when approximately 400 people tried to attend a rap concert at Adams House last night, resulting in the closing of parts of Plympton St. and the threats of arrest...
Samp says an advertisement for a City Council candidate on the man's car led to his subsequent arrest and six-month imprisonment...
...groundwater. The central government recently stepped in with $31 million for research and new, deeper wells. Last week Dipankar Chakraborty, an environmental scientist at Jadavpur University, held a seminar to publicize the mass contamination. Said a worried suburbanite: ``What we really need is not seminars but urgent action to arrest the menace...
...ruin and public cynicism is pervasive. Over the past 15 months, 16 private banks have failed and been nationalized. The government has picked up the tab for $7 billion in losses, equivalent to 16% of last year's GDP. Charges of financial irresponsibility, corruption and outright theft are flying. Arrest warrants have been issued for more than 100 people in connection with the collapses, and dozens of financiers are believed to have fled the country. President Rafael Caldera has charged that the banking system has been systematically looted by ``a den of thieves.'' The debacle makes a strong...
...construction companies. As they started to default, the banks attempted to compensate by offering sky-high interest rates--up to 18 percentage points above going levels--to attract new depositors and fresh funds. The most aggressive was Banco Latino. Within weeks of Banco Latino's takeover by the government, arrest warrants were issued for 82 of its directors and managers; many were believed to have fled the country. As bank after bank failed, the wanted list swelled. While some of the bankers turned themselves in and were released on bail to await formal indictments and trials, several...