Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Financial reality is forcing officials to consider alternatives to imprisonment for most nonviolent offenders. Twenty-two states are experimenting with electronic surveillance, in which offenders stay at home wearing a high-tech ankle bracelet that emits a signal telling probation officers where their charges are. A number of states have adopted some form of intensive-supervision probation. In that system, an offender lives at home but must check in with probation officers a number of times each day while also holding a job, often in community service. This approach requires the hiring of more probation officers, but it nevertheless winds...
...yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of alleged wrongdoing by high-level Internal Revenue Service officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders. -- The cable-television industry faces fiercer competition. -- Computer genius Seymour Cray breaks away from the company he founded...
...granting a temporary reprieve to the Rose, the government had to pledge as much as $1.65 million to the building's developers to cover the costs of delays in construction. And officials admit that revoking permission to build at Huggin Hill could run the government's liability as high as $40 million...
Worst of all, both historical sites would stay out of public view. One solution still being considered for the Rose is to incorporate the remains into the new building. London has used that remedy successfully several times. For example, a 12-ft.-high portion of the Roman wall that once encircled Londinium forms part of the basement wall of a new office building; pedestrians peek in through sidewalk windows. Allowing the Rose, the only Elizabethan theater ever discovered, to disappear once again sounds like the stuff of a Shakespearean tragedy. "Replicas of Elizabethan theaters are being built everywhere," observes actor...
...qualified as nuclear engineers who want to become an Assistant Secretary," says Chase Untermeyer, director of the office of presidential personnel. Mark Abramson, director of the Center for Excellence in Government, says top jobs are going begging because of "low pay, anxiety over postemployment restrictions and the feeling that high Government service is life in a fishbowl...