Word: bail
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...crisis also contains a strong element of make-believe. The state faces a deficit of $1.5 billion in the fiscal year that ends June 30, partly because state tax collections have been held down by the recession, partly because spending has been kept high by the need to bail out local governments whose ability to levy property taxes was sharply curtailed by the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978. While Democrats have said that they would go along with a tax boost if the Governor recommended one, Deukmejian has been holding to a campaign pledge not to raise state taxes...
...Herrington, who headed the task force. The report pointed out that the prey of criminals are afterward "oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them." Property used as evidence should be returned more promptly, said the task force, and victims should be permitted to speak when judges consider bail, postponement requests and sentences...
...year. Both sides are arming themselves for the FCC decision, and the sniper fire has already begun. Says Chester Midgen, executive director of the Association of Talent Agents: "Now that the networks feel the breath of competition on their backs, they want the FCC, Congress and everyone else to bail them...
Last week two of the detectives suspended in the Martin incident were formally charged, one for attempted murder, the other for attempting to wound. After a brief appearance in court, they were released on bail until another hearing scheduled for March 17. Waldorf, meanwhile, was out of danger and listed in fair condition. Whatever the outcome of the case, it has clearly raised doubts among the British public about whether an armed police force would actually serve better to protect the people. Said the Sunday Times: "The traditional image of the unarmed British bobby may never recover...
Last week Bowen, 29, a circulation manager for the San Jose Mercury News, pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and poisoning of medicine. In a surprise move, Belli introduced Susan Bowen in court in an attempt to obtain his client's release on bail. Unable to speak because of brain-stem damage sustained in the poisoning, Bowen's wife nodded in assent when Santa Clara County Municipal Court Judge Stephen Manley read a written statement in which she said, "I in no way suspect him of trying to injure me." Judge Manley, however, denied bail...