Word: bails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They appeared in court on Oct. 4 as expected, but this was for further remand and review of their bail conditions," said Claudia A. McElroy, coordinator of the Africa program for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The committee, a 20-member humanitarian group, has been protesting the Zimbabwean government's treatment of the journalists for several months...
...Choto, both currently on bail, have been charged under an antiquated law that the country's parliament has voted to repeal. They were, according to the charge, "publishing information likely to cause public alarm and despondency...
Chavunduka is currently out on bail but says he will return to Zimbabwe for his trial, scheduled to begin Oct. 4. He could be saved by Zimbabwe's Supreme Court, which is considering an appeal claiming that the law under which he was charged is unconstitutional...
Both men were released on bail. On Jan. 22 both journalists, who are being represented by the local Zimbabwean firm Atherstone & Cook, were formally charged. The trial has been continually postponed until the Supreme Court makes its decision...
That's because when the bean counters counted the beans and predicted there would be an extra $1 trillion in 10 years, not counting Social Security revenues, it was assumed that lawmakers would obey the laws they had written and slash future spending by billions of dollars. If lawmakers bail, then there's less extra money to pay down the debt. Republican proposals so far, rather than cutting spending, would increase it next year about $25 billion, which more than wipes out next year's projected $14 billion surplus. The only place to find that money is to raise taxes...