Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect the present prisons system has had on the prisoners' personal lives and on their abilities to adapt constructively to our larger society. In the light of the chronic misery that his system propagates, Commissioner Hall's argument for immediate prisons construction is an abominable shame. Recently disclosed Mass. Bar Statistics reveal that Hall's much-publicized "severe overcrowding" at MCI is due largely to his own system of prisoner classification. The prisoners he has crowded together there are new, young inmates, for whom the proposed construction is not even intended. Even within the deceptive immediacy of Commissioner Hall...
...Patrick is Alive and Well at Murphy's Bar...
...have to resort to lying to get people out, you lie," says a San Francisco officer. An Indiana sheriff would go further, saying of one hostage taker in a recent incident: "I'd have given him title to Hawaii." John L. Carey, president of the Indiana Bar Association, sharply disagrees, maintaining: "The government shouldn't give its word and then go back...
...think it's no more than right for me to sit here." But the new evidence strengthened the attack on Bailey. Said one critic: "I just don't believe a convicted shoplifter should make the laws of the state." The legislature voted, 82 to 10, to bar Bailey...
...anti-nukes have won some fights too. Last November Missourians voted to forbid utilities to pass on costs of building power facilities until they were in operation, thus hampering construction of nuclear plants. And at Vermont town meetings early this month, residents of 28 communities voted to bar nuclear plants and waste-disposal facilities in their towns. The Wisconsin legislature is now considering several bills that would restrict or ban nuclear plants. In a January interview with the Conservation Foundation Letter, Russell Train, who headed the Government's Environmental Protection Agency under President Ford, called for "the phasing...