Word: bails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems like most college students contact their parents when: 1) they need bail money, 2) they need spending money, or 3) if their lives are falling apart. I exaggerate, of course, but there is a feeling that since we're adults now, we no longer need to interact much with the folks whose mannerisms and characteristics probably shaped our 'adult' personas more than anyone else's. I don't understand that point of view. Sure, we are adults now, and living away from home reinforces the fact that we are individuals with identities...
Anwar: I am in prison not because of being convicted of any crime but simply because I'm denied bail, which is most unique and unprecedented in Malaysian legal history. I'm extremely fine, as [good as one] can possibly be in prison--busy with prayers, devouring books, strategizing reformasi [the reform movement], avoiding the indolence of prison life...
...made weapons overseas to peanut farming. Washington helps buy crop insurance for tobacco, builds roads into national forests for the timber industry, sells minerals on public lands at bargain-basement rates and offers cut-rate electricity for businesses like casinos. The Feds help shippers that use inland waterways and bail out American banks with loans gone bad in foreign countries. It's the U.S. government's cafeteria of corporate welfare, and it's draining more than a third of a billion dollars a day--more than $125 billion a year--out of taxpayers' pockets...
...Time Warner in 1995 and independent since '96, the Palace--like most of its competitors--hoped to turn a profit by charging for its software. By last winter, though, it had amassed just 300 sites and 50,000 users, and its investors were looking for a buyer to bail them...
Benjamin Netanyahu decided not to press his luck. Afer causing an uproar earlier today with a last-second threat to bail out of peace talks unless President Clinton released convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli prime minister backed down. Instead, the issue of Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel, has been tabled until that nicest of diplomatic elements -- an unspecified later date -- occurs. The Israelis and Palestinians signed a pact Friday covering the Wye talks' main issue: Israeli withdrawal from 13.1 percent of the West Bank in exchange for greater security guarantees...