Word: bail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday, an unidentified man walked up to Karel F. Liem, Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology, after his Biology 7b lecture and offered to bail out the financially troubled introductory class...
Shemie, who supports a balanced budget amendment, ran into trouble of his own on the tax issues last week, when he said on a radio talk show that he is unfamiliar with major 1983 legislation that raised Social Security taxes to bail out the ailing program...
King and his associates, out on bail, are angry. Said School Lawyer Oren Briggs, oblivious to the irony: "I wouldn't treat a dog like they've treated us." Why were children beaten? King, a Fundamentalist, referred to Proverbs 22: 15: "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." He decided on his own that plastic pipe was what the Scripture intended. Michael, 11, did not see it that way. "They didn't have the true word of God there," he said...
Only about 500 supporters answered Scargill's plea for an even bigger turnout the following day. Then Scargill was arrested for obstruction at Orgreave's main gate. He was quickly released on bail, but the reaction was nonetheless swift and brutal. Within hours, more than 3,000 demonstrators had gathered, and police charges were meeting stiffer resistance. Lengths of wire were strung across the road at the height of a horse's fetlock and a rider's neck. Telephone poles were ripped down and used as battering rams against police lines. The authorities and some miners...
...case involved Gladys Pulliam, a Virginia magistrate who ordered two men held in jail because they could not make bail, even though they were charged with minor offenses that carried no jail terms. The two men got a federal injunction forbidding such jailing by Pulliam in the future, and a later order assessing the judge more than $7,000 for their legal fees. The four dissenters, led by Justice Lewis Powell, feared that judicial independence would now be eroded by "the ever present threat of burdensome litigation." But Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for the majority, could find no historical basis...