Word: jail
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...year. Under a bill passed by Florida's legislature, a first conviction would bring a minimum fine of $250, plus 50 hours of required community service and a six-month loss of license. For a second offense, the minimum penalties would jump to $500 and ten days in jail. To step up the rate of conviction, many states have made a blood-alcohol level of .10% in drivers a crime in itself, rather than merely evidence of intoxication that must be buttressed by other proof. (To score .10%, a 160-lb. man would have to consume 5½ beers...
Higgins and Montgomery act well with Osius. At one point towards the end of the play, when More is in jail condemned to death, the wife and daughter come to say their last farewell. In their final moments together, the three embrace. They almost freeze, creating a virtual tableau. We feel the women's sorrow and pain at their distance from More yet we don't feel he is all there...
...subsequently a death threat. Rennie successfully wheedles her editor into sending her to write a travel piece on St. Antoine, an obscure Caribbean island. The Caribbean sun is soothing, but the islanders are fomenting revolution; and the steadily more surreal chain of events that lands Rennie in a tropical jail teaches her only, in the end, that she cannot ever muster the strength to make herself "exempt" from pain...
...Falklands have no trees, and, rumors of offshore oil notwithstanding, there are virtually no natural resources except grass. There are also no newspapers or television sets and no paved roads outside the little capital of Port Stanley (pop. 1,050). And in pre-Argentine days, not even the town jail was locked. To Fred Strebeigh, a tutor at Yale who paid a long visit to the islands, Police Chief Terry Peck explained: "We haven't got hardened criminals here...
...question that many past county officials have not adhered to conventional rules of procedure. A former county sheriff was caught wildcat strip mining, while other officials have solicited illegal campaign contributions, used county property for private purposes or, as the local paper reported, "duked it out" with the jail matron. All this has led to widespread political apathy. As Gladys Maynard, chairman of a relatively new citizen's action group, observes. "A lot of people here have been deprived and deceived so much by county officials and corporations, it's hard for them to trust anyone...