Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help calm the left, Tanin has granted bail to 2,600 of the 3,000 students arrested at Thammasat. He has also restrained the gung-ho anti-Communist sweeps by the army and police, especially in the capital, and has released all but 200 of the 1,000-odd suspects they had corralled. After the initial postcoup excesses, the government is increasingly aware of the danger of providing Thailand's Communist insurgents with a fresh influx of embittered, educated cadres. The threat was underlined when four top members of Thailand's Socialist Party used clandestine Communist radios...
What a costly error on the part of the unfortunate Palestinian terrorists. Didn't anyone tell them the U.S. is the place to commit a crime? A mere week or so of deliberations, a possible term in jail, then out on bail in no time, ready to kill again...
Hard Dollar. It is not simply that Alex is a fool for punishment. He makes his living from it. He pulls down a hard dollar as a bail bondsman and indulges in much gruff whimsy during working hours. "What's the good word?" a gangster client asks him innocently. Alex pounces: "Sunset is a good word. Pretzel is a good word." At last, the gypsy stirring in her soul, Maritza jumps the bail that Alex has posted for her assault rap and heads for Mazatlán in a private plane, accompanied by a rich gent with a lickerish...
...Municipal Assistance Corp., which was created to oversee New York City's troubled finances. The drop in the rating of the original MAC bonds from A (meaning secure) to B (meaning risky) put an immediate damper on the sale of later MAC bonds, endangering the attempts to bail out New York City...
...prevent Air Holdings Ltd. from backing out of its commitment to order 30 Lockheed TriStars (with options for 20 more). Since the TriStar was the one plane that could use Rolls-Royce RB-211 engines-and therefore the plane on which the Tory government's efforts to bail out bankrupt Rolls-Royce's aero-engine program depended-it seems unlikely that Lockheed would have to bribe government officials into backing the purchases. A Labor M.P. called for a parliamentary investigation, but no one else took up the issue...