Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conveyed by the headlines or the bulletins. SHOW BUSINESS, for instance, covers Manhattan's most unusual entertainment (it happens on the sidewalk). Music tells about one of the newest and most exciting masters of the dance, LAW about a philanthropist who would like, if he could, to bail out every prisoner in the land. BUSINESS talks about the comeback of the small grocer, and RELIGION about a hotel that owes more to Moses than to Conrad Hilton...
...American law that any accused person is innocent until proved guilty. Yet each year thousands of Americans who have been charged with a crime but not yet brought to trial spend weeks and sometimes months in prison. They stay behind bars simply because they cannot afford the price of bail. In an effort to correct the inequities of a practice that, in effect, discriminates against the poor, 450 judges, district attorneys, lawyers, and police from all 50 states gathered in Washington for the first National Conference on Bail and Criminal Justice...
...conferees were all too familiar with the problems. Most judges set bail according to the crime. They give little consideration to a defendant's background, character or financial status. And the man who holds the key to freedom is not even a member of the court; he is a professional bondsman, in business to make money, understandably leary of poor defendants who can neither put up collateral nor pay the usual fee: $100 for each $1,000 of bail. But what to do about it? By far the most impressive answers came not from a lawman but from...
...year, built up a foreign debt of $3 billion, and seemed to be operating on four basic Brazilian principles: 1) God is a Brazilian, 2) confidence is a good racket, 3) paper is the stuff money is made of, and 4) the Americans would always bail them out anyway...
...previous president, Joseph Callies, left under pressure after the French government vetoed his plan to get cash from General Electric and make it a major partner. Though the government opposes U.S. "takeovers" of French companies, it has been unable so far to induce other French electronic equipment makers to bail out Bull. Last week the bankers and politicians were negotiating a complex deal to split Bull into subsidiaries, let General Electric buy a share of some of them. President Schulz flew to Manhattan to talk with...