Word: bailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corporations, has just captured Sharon Steel (annual sales: $225 million) after a bitter battle. Posner's NVF Co., a Delaware mini-conglomerate (annual sales: $30 million), offered a package of debentures and warrants backed by so few assets that Sharon accused him of planning to raid its coffers to bail NVF out of financial trouble. Even Posner's prospectus admitted that the combine might well earn too little money to pay the $4,500,000 a year interest cost on the debentures. Last week, as Posner was elected chairman of Sharon, six of its directors quit...
...first step of the complicated but fairly liberal review procedure is the staff judge advocate, who can approve the sentence, reduce, or dismiss it. From there it goes to Washington. All this takes time, of course, which the accused must spend in prison, since there is no provision for bail in military law. However, despite the rigmarole of court-martial, there is little likelihood that any of the convicted "mutineers" will spend anything like 15 years in jail...
...clearly out of all proportion to the grievances, real or imagined. Said Acting Principal Douglass Clarke: "The time for generosity is over." Clarke said he intends to press charges against the rebels, who have been booked for half a dozen kinds of conspiracy and are being held without bail. "Painful as the task may be," Clarke explained, "the university has the duty to see that academic freedom is preserved and that no one is permitted to threaten or destroy its functions." If tried and convicted, the rioters-28 of whom are not even students at Sir George Williams-could receive...
General Sessions, is among those who argue that it is impossible to identify repeaters beforehand with any reasonable accuracy. Greene claims that judges would have to detain "eight, ten or perhaps more suspects who would not commit crimes while out on bail in order to be sure to keep off the streets the one defendant who will...
...curfews for certain defendants, to require them to report regularly to court officers and to prohibit them from carrying a weapon or other acts that might bring trouble. The Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit research group seeking to modernize legal procedures, started a trend away from money bail in Manhattan, is now offering job training and counseling to some of those who are released on their own word...