Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billie Sol, as it turned out. had a couple of bad habits, too-and one evening last March, FBI agents came to his house and arrested him. Last week he was free on bail, but his empire had collapsed, and he was under indictment on charges of fraud and theft. West Texas was swarming with investigators trying to untangle a web of deceit, fraud and corruption that stretched the 1,500 taut miles to Washington. One major discovery about Billie Sol was that the guesses about the size of his fortune had been fantastically inaccurate; far from being worth...
...Bail for Rails. A central problem is that the U.S. simply has too much transportation capacity. Last year the nation's airlines used only 57% of their total seat capacity, ran $34 million in the red. The big Eastern railroads lost $96 million. But federal, state and even local regulators have stubbornly continued to foster uneconomic competition by artificial means...
This time Pop (Karl Maiden) wires the bail, and Berry-berry, risking reactivation of his Momplex, hitchhikes home to Cleveland for Christmas. There he finds an unexpected present: a blonde called Echo O'Brien (Eva Marie Saint). They fall in love, and for a few idyllic weeks Berry-berry lives for more than kicks. But when Echo gets pregnant. Berry-berry gets lost. In despair, she drives her car off an embankment. "I hate life!" Berry-berry groans. But he goes right on living, if it can be called that...
...five years may well be too long. Nehru knows that he cannot push the Communist Chinese out of the territory they occupy without triggering a conflict that would force him to call in the Western allies to bail him out. But Nehru can no longer afford to let China gobble up any more Indian territory. If India cannot throw the Chinese out, it must hasten its defense buildup to deter Red China from any more land grabbing. If it does not, India may find itself in the grip of a five-finger vise...
These journals of opinion-and limited circulation-chronically lose money and depend on well-heeled readers and sympathizers to bail them annually out of the red. They would be hard put to survive even a modest postal rate increase-and the one under consideration is by no means modest. It would, for example, boost the Nation's annual mail bill from...