Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aunt's house. When he came at her again, she shot him. "They say I'm a violent person, but I'm not. I didn't want revenge. I just wanted out." Facing 25 years, she was told by a female public defender to take a plea bargain and 17 years. "I wanted to fight. But she said I'd get life or the electric chair. I was in a no-win situation...
...real bargain here is the boxer shorts: the Lodge makes its own boxer-wear. All boxers are on sale for a 20 percent discount, with boxers left over from spring and summer marked down still further...
...journey through the leviathan warehouses of Levis, boxer and Teva diversity reveals that, ultimately, the best bargain depends on the buyer. Given the incredible diversity of fashion in the Square, anything you might want is there for the buying...
Jonathan Pollard was arrested in 1985 and charged by the U.S. government with spying for Israel. Hoping to receive a lesser sentence and to avoid a media trial that would have involved classified material, Pollard agreed to a plea bargain. He received a promise that, in exchange, the court would impose a sentence of "a substantial period of incarceration and a monetary fine"--language that legal experts interpreted to mean a sentence less than life imprisonment...
...with reporters, Weinberger had also said that Pollard "deserved to be hanged." Pollard did, in fact, receive the maximum sentence of life imprisonment--the decision to which Weinberger was clearly alluding in his sworn statement. Indeed, Pollard's lawyers later argued that Weinberger violated the terms of the plea bargain by implicitly calling for the harshest possible sentence...