Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better service from the railroad. In response, Conductor Charles Farnsworth signaled for the train to stop at the next station. All four were arrested on an obscure misdemeanor charge, "theft of service." Then they were taken in a police paddy wagon to Brooklyn night court, where a judge set bail at $500 each...
...date on charges resulting from the shooting of two Oakland policemen last April. But Cleaver, who disappeared in late November when his parole was revoked, failed to show up. That left his wife and five friends holding a verv empty bag. They have guaranteed Cleaver's $50,000 bail, and unless he emerges within six months, the money will be forfeited. As the FBI continued its search for Cleaver, the Internal Revenue Service entered the act. The IRS filed a $59,715.12 lien against him for unpaid taxes on royalties from his book, Soul on Ice, and lecture fees...
Kunstler calls himself a "people's lawyer," and in court he plays the part for all it is worth, occasionally risking contempt of court. Defending nine Catholic draft-record burners in Baltimore, Kunstler advised the jury to ignore the judge's charge to them. Protesting the high bail for another Catholic group charged with the same crime in Milwaukee, Kunstler attacked the judge: "I don't think Your Honor will make his career on the bench with heavy bail. It makes the law look ridiculous...
...fattest woman I have ever seen, her daughters dressed in vinyl shoes, a three dollar skirt, and hair that was set the night before (she set it the night before to look neat when she went to court). The son, the brother has been sentenced for possessing a revolver; bail is $5000. He has a record that it took the court attendant five minutes to read; it started five years ago when he was 13. And just the same, like me, like the shoplifter, like the Harvard people and the welfare mothers, the family of the boy with the revolver...
LAST YEAR, the Faculty ended up collecting more of the overhead costs than Ford had predicted, and the unexpected money helped bail the budget out of its predicted deficit. This year, however, prospects are bleaker. The Faculty will still get its overhead percentage--7 per cent of all research money--but the total amount of research grants will be much lower. For the first time since the 1940's, the grant totals will drop, and Ford predicts 25 per cent less research money than would have come with normal expansion...