Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue warrants, and he demanded that 20 ministries and state agencies hand over the names of employees with high absenteeism records. Before Italy's 3.8 million civil servants could say "Per Bacco! What's going on?" they were being upbraided, and some were even led away to jail in handcuffs...
...Maria Ferraguto, 50, who had won bonuses for hard work on her climb to the job of a personnel director in a Rome post office. She was charged with aggravated and continuous fraud against the state, a felony that carries a penalty of up to three years in jail and up to $318 in fines. Her alleged crime: consistently checking in to her office at 11 a.m. and leaving at 1 p.m., thus working only two of the six daily hours required. Alessandro Vigneri, 29, police claim, should have been handling baggage at Fiumicino Airport instead of working...
...that he was among the first to take the rescue boat," said JAL President Yasumoto Takagi. Pictures later showed the captain, with a bland expression and wearing a cardigan, aboard a bus after he had reportedly told officials he was an office worker. He could receive a five-year jail term if convicted under Article 75 of Japan's civil aviation law, which requires a pilot to do his best to minimize casualties and property damage in a plane crash...
Cambridge fire chief Daniel J. Reagan said yesterday he was very disappointed by the panel's decision. Doubting the effectiveness of the Sheriff's plans for a firewatch, Reagan said that the jail would remain a fire hazard as long as there was no sprinkler system...
...panel's decision is only temporary, pending a hearing before the state's building code commission sometime next month to determine whether the jail is in violation of building codes...