Word: bail
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...involved many factors: the way the rest of the country feels about New York; its reputation as the very symbol of lavish welfare spending; excessive expectations and inept management. Much of the country believes that New York is simply asking hard-working Americans hundreds of miles away to go bail for the city's profligacy. Many New Yorkers in turn believe that much of their trouble has been imposed on them by the country, through welfare legislation and Great Society programs that the city could not control. In addition to suffering the ailments of all big, old U.S. cities...
...foreign aid that we've sent abroad and the billions that we spent in Viet Nam, I don't see why Washington can't help out New York." Houston Mayor Fred Hofheinz believes that "cities that are living within their means should not have to pay taxes to bail out cities that are not fiscally responsible." Still, he reluctantly favors federal help for New York because the city "has been forced to solve problems created elsewhere in many cases...
...First? Patty's mental state remains the key issue before the courts. Last week Federal Judge Oliver Carter postponed until at least Oct. 22 the hearing to determine whether she should go free on $500,000 bail pending trial. The delay will give three psychiatrists and one psychologist appointed by the court more time to evaluate her stability. If Patty is found to be mentally incompetent, she could be confined to an institution indefinitely...
Boston police are holding without bail an unidentified man allegedly connected with five armed robberies, one of which took place in a Harvard building in the Medical School-Children's Hospital complex, and five rapes...
...issue was the demand by the union for a 12% salary increase for each of the next four years, plus a guarantee that the school board will not fire teachers engaged in the strike. The arrested teachers were released on $500 bail-but only after they had signed forms promising to remain in their homes from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. That restriction, designed to prevent them from picketing, was overturned as unconstitutional later in the week. Still, many teachers were astounded by the city's tough tactics. For example, John Lennox, assistant football coach at Wilmington...