Word: jail
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...over her mother's refusal to tell the FBI about John Walker's spying and thus break Mark's hold on Christopher. Laura considered going to the FBI alone, but her loyalties were divided. "I was torn between exposing my father and risking (his spending) his entire life in jail," she said. "I do love my father." At the same time, Laura claimed, her mother had warned, "If you do this, you're going to destroy the whole family. I could go to jail, and who knows what else could happen...
...thieves who get caught in the Yard (they must be thieves, because only Harvard students are intelligent enough to walk 50-ft. to the next exit) get taken to jail where they have to eat plain bread and water? If so, maybe the phrase should read "To Depart, Serve Butter to Thy Kind...
...after, according to published reports, Mengele was living in the well- to-do Buenos Aires suburb of Olivos and practicing medicine with impunity, though without a license. On one occasion, it is said, a patient died while Mengele was performing an abortion on her, and he found himself in jail. Two hours later a friend posted bail, and the "Angel of Death" was free once again. In the late '50s, after Peron had been exiled and the West German government had issued a request for Mengele's extradition, the doctor moved again, this time to Paraguay...
...believed in." Only after her former husband was arrested did she learn that she had unwittingly turned in Michael too. "How can a father do this?" she was quoted as saying. "He used his own son. If what they say is true, he's lucky he's in jail because I would kill...
...Thayer case was fairly unusual in the annals of corporate crime because it resulted in a stiff penalty. Of the 9,900 white-collar offenders sentenced last year, 60% received no prison term. Those sent to jail typically serve one year or less. In contrast, an estimated 70% of defendants convicted of all kinds of felonies go to prison or jail. Prosecutors and critics of the courts maintain that business crime is on the rise because corporate crooks have received such lenient treatment...