Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Jones, chairman of Humana Inc., complains that Chrysler's previous management made bad decisions, "and now they expect somebody else to pick up the bill." Pertec Computer Chairman Ryal Poppa warns, "Soon the Government will be asking us why we complain when they want to regulate our businesses if we're so willing to accept their help when we are in trouble." Economist Alan Greenspan finds a Government bailout wrong on principle, wrong because it would be granted not to any troubled company but only to a large one, and wrong because it would not protect jobs...
...core of public trust is the belief that judges are impartial. New York Lawyer Simon Rifkind, a former judge, notes: "Impartiality is an acquired taste, like olives. You have to be habituated to it." Some judges never lose the attitudes they brought to the bench; lawyers complain that judges who were prosecutors favor the state, and judges who were defense lawyers favor the defendant...
...trial within a specified period. However, these laws do not always work: they are vague and ambiguous, and judges are lax in enforcing them. When the laws do work, there is a need for more judges to handle the load and civil cases are backed up. Lawyers complain that they do not have time to prepare their cases, and that means that some prosecutions simply get dropped. Because of such arguments, the Federal Speedy Trial Act, expected to go into effect last month, has been postponed by Congress for one year...
Some critics of plea bargaining complain that criminals get off too lightly. Others insist that defendants get railroaded out of their right to a trial by prosecutors who "overcharge," i.e., charge defendants with worse crimes than they committed, to force them into guilty pleas. What everyone agrees on is that plea bargaining is at best an expedient to lighten case loads...
...their right to a jury. In Philadelphia, defendants usually do not plea bargain-that is, plead guilty in return for leniency. Instead, they are apt to plead not guilty but waive their right to a jury trial because they know waivers judges will go easy on them. Too easy, complain Philadelphia prosecutors. In White's court, defendants convicted of shootings and stabbings get off on probation; attempted rape of a girl of 16 by three men with criminal records got the three only six to 23 months in jail...