Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mistake was that I managed to get my car towed. And it wasn't any piddling 14 bucks like it is in Cambridge, it was a piddling 65 bucks. New York is using the money they get from towed cars to help bail them out of their financial woes because they can't get a big enough loan from Household Finance...
...their boss. Prosecutors said Barnes never handled the drugs himself. His defense attorney, David Breitbart, said he would challenge the prosecution's evidence once again and appeal verdict, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and a minimum sentence of ten years. Meanwhile, Barnes, who was denied bail, will be in a federal prison, along with most of his convicted sidekicks...
...busy executive may, in the course of a day, have to put in a call or write to city hall in San Francisco. Or, on behalf of an errant salesman, reach a bail-bond outfit in Buffalo. Or a Toledo TV station. Or the Manufactured Housing Institute. Or HEW in Atlanta, or EPA in Boston, or a bus terminal in Minneapolis...
...Lindbergh did not consider it unusual when he had to bail out for varied reasons: colliding with another plane in a sham combat attack over Texas; running out of fuel in a fog near Chicago when no one told him that his 120-gal. gasoline tank had been replaced with an 80-gal. tank; losing sight of the ground in a storm in those preradio years and finding his only field-illuminating flare had failed. He wrote that he had accepted his job as chief pilot on the St. Louis-Chicago mail route "with the understanding that each pilot...
...Atlanta, Judge William Alexander of the Fulton County State Court ordered Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, to stand trial on charges of disseminating obscene material. Flynt, who faces similar charges in neighboring Gwinnett County, is free on bail while appealing a seven- to 25-year sentence in Cincinnati. The new trials could mean added penalties of up to 17 years...