Word: bails
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...described in antiseptic detail the innards of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and of Ronald Goldman, and the impassioned final statements of both lawyers. Municipal Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell needed only 30 minutes or so to issue her ruling. Simpson would go to trial. There would be no bail. Legally, of course, he remains innocent until proved guilty. The real trial is still to come...
...Zhirinovsky was arrested and expelled from Turkey in 1969 as a KGB agent. Students back at the Oriental Languages Institute heard that the Turks had thrown him in prison for passing out Soviet badges to Turkish boys and that, after the Soviet consulate sprang him on bail, Zhirinovsky jumped bail. It was widely assumed that the KGB had played a role in his release...
Since 1970, Stanford University -- one of the nation's most prestigious -- has been peppering its student transcripts with As and Bs (93% of all grades awarded) and letting scholars bail out of uncongenial courses up to the very day of final exams with no questions asked. But last week the school turned its back on slacker-friendly grading and reinstated a failing NP (Not Passed) grade for 1995-96. How do other schools measure...
...This pace will not abate, only increase," thememo continues. "Despite the best efforts toimprove efficiency, HASCS is a ship taking onwater faster than it can bail...
Although Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles indicated recently that funding to the group will be increased, in January the service's outgoing acting director, Richard S. Steen, characterized HASCS as "a ship taking on water faster than it can bail...