Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thoughts about Little Bruce's aptitude for the family business and urged him "to look for a 9-to-5 job." The son ignored the advice and ended up last summer in the Chester County prison farm for stealing $2 worth of gas from a farmer. Released on bail, he was promptly sent back to the farm for stealing a pickup truck. Little Bruce was despondent because he had been planning to marry his girlfriend, pretty Robin Miller, 15, who lived on a farm in nearby Oxford. But he resolved to follow the family maxim: "Do your time...
...ourselves get fat." Sound management principles were ignored. Argues Sumner G. Rahr, a fund-raising consultant: "The businessmen on college boards didn't apply tough financial standards at board meetings. They figured, 'Oh, the nuns will come through again,' or 'Old Mr. Chips will bail...
...ROLLING STONES have finished out 1978, the annus mirabilis of Some Girls and the amazing bootleg Out On Bail, with an interesting snatch of new material: "Everything is Turning to Gold," the B side to the "Shattered" single, and a new single from lead guitarist Keith Richards. Generally good, but good or bad, still the Stones, and so far better than the welter of nugatory bilge they waste vinyl on nowadays...
Yeah...they come in and they ask me if they're going to have time on their own to do pro bono work, bail bond projects or whatever. I find a lot of fellows who are interested in doing something for individuals...more interested in doing that then they are in making money. When I got out of school in 1933 I think the accent was on making money...the hell with going out and doing pro bono stuff...
...gamble If stocks do not continue to rise (a very real possibility considering how high current stock prices are relative to company earnings), workers would be stuck with lower benefits. If large numbers of retirees lose money in the market, there will be pressure on the government to bail them out, forcing a future administration to choose between precipitating a fiscal crisis and ignoring the struggling elderly. Even if the market stays strong, some people are bound to retire and cash out their holdings in a bear market (historically, nearly one out of every four years has showed negative stock...