Word: imprison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capture of 459,000 Ibs. of marijuana and 20 smuggling vessels. Later that day the President declared the effort "a clear and unqualified success," adding: "Our goal is to wreck the power of the Mob in America and nothing short of it. We mean to end their profits, imprison their members and cripple their organizations...
...such a verdict at the outset of deliberations, sparing themselves both the difficulty of determining sanity and the danger of returning a potentially dangerous criminal to their community. This new verdict enables jurors to convict defendants who otherwise would, and should, be declared insane. Guilty-but-mentally-ill would imprison those not legally accountable for a crime...
Today, a creditor generally cannot imprison his debtor, nor can he garnishee his salary without a court order. The creditor cannot even pursue and harass him with the traditional rudenesses of the bill collector. According to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which took effect in 1978, a bill collector cannot...
...poet herself. Harris's interpretations of the man and his letters lie in how she strings together the images, what images she chooses to have him describe, and in the creation of this male character. The end result is a near-complete adoption of another voice which threatens to imprison the poet, who is reduced to reading and retelling letters. Nevertheless, the experiment works when Harris allows the letter-writer to stretch the limits of the poem to include banter, as she writes in "The Man After Crossing the Gulf from Kodiak...
Under the proposed revisions, existing laws directed specifically against anti-draft and anti-war protesters would be strengthened, a new provision would target anti-nuclear power activists for special investigation and prosecution. The bill would give judges broad new powers to deny bail and to imprison people accused of any crime while they await trail. This so-called preventive detention seems to conflict with the Eighth Amendment and certainly undermines the basic assumption that a person is innocent until proven guilty. The legislation would also effectively nullify the "exclusionary rule" that has invalidated the use of evidence obtained illegally...