Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television set. Escobar will undoubtedly use some of his narco billions to create a more homey environment. Yet, for all the angry talk about a "five- star prison," Villa Escobar is no less a jail than the federal "country clubs" that hold America's most celebrated white-collar criminals. The walls are stone and concrete, and steel bars cover every door and window...
...levy has been labeled the Robin Hood tax by one economist because it helps transfer money from the rich to the poor. Not everyone sees it that way, however. A rare chorus of blue-chip retailers and blue-collar workers denounces it as a disaster tax. At issue is the six-month-old "luxury tax" that Congress adopted last year as part of a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan. The new 10% excise tax was tacked onto such goods as pleasure boats, private airplanes, jewelry and fur. While the tax bite is not particularly severe -- a minuscule $25 million is expected...
...contends the National Marine Manufacturers Association, has been the layoffs of thousands of skilled boatbuilders. "In a nutshell, this tax has been devastating," says Carl Herndon, president of Blackfin Yacht in Fort Lauderdale. "The rich are still rich. But the people who are on the unemployment rolls are blue-collar workers...
...contend that cameras in the courtroom can have a subtle and damaging effect on the trial itself. Witnesses may be more reluctant to testify, for example, if they know they will be seen on the nightly news by their neighbors. Seth Waxman, a Washington attorney who represented a white- collar defendant in one televised trial, says that jurors afterward made it clear that TV had had an impact; one juror said a witness seemed less credible because she kept nervously glancing at the camera. Argues Waxman: "Any extraneous factor that complicates the fact-finding process ought not to be allowed...
...weeks after arriving at Harvard, went to a rally to hear Dershowitz denounce Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. As he stood at the lectern--jacket collar upturned, unkempt hair blowing in the wind--he spoke with venomous wit in loud, indignant tones. I rushed home afterwards to call my parents and tell them of my brush with greatness...