Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center field space, snaring a foolishly ambitious triple in mid-arc. But baseball is also a hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards his head, wanting to bail out but afraid to do anything but take a big man's cut and slice the air as the rainbow follows down and away for strike three. It is the agony of the minor leagues, letting the sweat trickle down your back in a near-empty stadium in western Massachusetts...
Unfortunately, your story has helped perpetuate the myth that Government funds were used to "bail out" Lockheed, which simply isn't the case...
Bankers are confident, however, that if they get in real trouble the Government will either rescue the debtor country through some international funding operation or bail out the banks directly. Yet even a successful rescue operation could send dangerous reverberations through the system...
...trading department illegally used $40 million of depositors' funds to speculate in commodities futures. Though no depositors lost money on the deals, Erdman, as the bank's president, was clapped in a Basel jail along with six other officers. Ten months later he was permitted to post bail, and left Switzerland-presumably forever. He was later tried in absentia and given an eight-year prison sentence that he faces if he ever returns...
...Republican State Senator Ronald MacKenzie on charges of squeezing $40,000 from a New York consulting firm in exchange for suppressing a legislative report criticizing the company's work on state construction contracts. DiCarlo, who faces a year in prison and a $5,000 fine, is free on bail pending an appeal...