Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...James is a former repo man; he plays it polite but inexorable. "Do you know who he is working for?" Pause. "Does he understand that Texas has passed criminal-nonsupport statutes?" Pause. "Do you think he may be afraid to call? That if he calls he will go to jail? Tell him I will work with him in any way I can to help him straighten this out." Final pause. "But if I find out where he' s working and he hasn' t called, I won't give him the courtesy of a phone call. l'll attach his wages...
...provisions passed by the House last week could "give us additional tools to work with,'' Hoffman says. Sometimes the collectors simply shame the deadbeat, plastering his neighborhood with wanted posters or--in a case near Fort Worth--posting his name on a highway billboard. The ultimate threat is jail time...
...would overhaul telecommunications policy for the first time in more than 60 years, the Senate Commerce Committee proposed a ban on pornography in cyberspace. The plan, known as the Communications Decency Act of 1995, would make it a crime, punishable by up to $100,000 and two years in jail, to transmit "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" images, E-mail, text files and any other form of communication online...
...subsequent events. By Tuesday night, Mexico City motorists were driving past Salinas' house honking their car horns and hollering, ``Lock him up! Throw him in jail!'' On Wednesday, Salinas formally withdrew his now hopeless bid to preside over the new World Trade Organization, relinquishing a cherished ambition to become an international economic czar. And on Friday, in an act that summed up his political decline, Salinas fell back on a tactic normally reserved for those who have no other leverage: the former President began a fast, temporarily called it off and then resumed...
...peso skidding to an all-time low on Friday, Zedillo's willingness to back the inquiry is proving popular with Mexicans long skeptical that promises of reform will ever be fulfilled. In a poll published on Thursday, 68% said they trust Zedillo more now that Raul Salinas is in jail...