Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equal to the difference between a 7% pay increase and the real increase in the Consumer Price Index, up to 10%. Business organizations still oppose the idea as inflationary in itself. Big Labor now finds real wage insurance at least palatable, if only because some workers might get some cash...
Eleven jurors heard enough to convict. But not the twelfth. According to other jurors, retired Navy Cook William Cash, 63, held out for Flood's acquittal during the almost twelve hours of deliberation. The result: a mistrial-and a federal investigation into the reasons for it. Last week, TIME has learned, federal agents received information linking Cash with individuals described as "associates of Flood." Cash denies everything, but a strange tale has begun to unfold...
Soon after the jury retired to consider the verdict, Cash made it clear that he would vote "not guilty" on every one of eleven counts of bribery, conspiracy and perjury against Flood. At first, he would not say why. But then he told the jury that he had learned from "confidential sources" that three of the prosecution's witnesses, including Elko, had "stolen" $176,000 from Flood. "Cash felt that the other three were guiltier than Flood and that Flood had been taken advantage of," says Juror Elizabeth Vegos, 29. Cash also stated that he did not want...
...wrote an unsigned note to Judge Oliver Gasch protesting: "I don't think American justice should work this way." When Gasch called the jurors together, he quickly learned of Cash's so-called confidential information. Questioned by the judge, Cash simply shrugged and said it had been a "joke." Back went the jury, with instructions to consider only evidence presented in court. Again it deadlocked, and the judge, "with the utmost reluctance," declared a mistrial...
Last week Cash maintained he had made up a joke that he scarcely recalls, and that he had never even heard of Flood before the trial. But federal officials were not so sure. Cash's information is similar in some details to a story Flood told Elko years ago. How Cash could have got involved is a mystery. Along with the rest of the jury, he was supposed to be completely isolated from outside contact during the trial. Federal marshals accompanied jurors on trips to pick up clean clothes from home, and even the windows of the jurors...