Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rights were concerned, he claimed, China's steady economic growth has reduced the number of people living below the poverty line from 250 million to 50 million. With more than 1 billion people in all, China has to be more concerned than other nations about stability. Dissidents were in jail for criminal activity, not their political views, he insisted. "We just see these things from different points of view," Jiang maintained. The standoff continued for an hour and 45 minutes, when the two Presidents parted with a respectful handshake...
...villainies--tying nice girls to railroad tracks, playing poker with an extra ace--are elaborate setups, abominations staged by the author to make the good guys look good in the last chapter. This, of course, is what good guys do; they look good. And the bad guys go to jail or perdition...
...Pending appeal, Woodward faces life in jail, with a chance of parole in 15 years. She may also apply for transfer to a British prison. And the child-care debate will no doubt continue to rage among people like the Eappens, a couple who hired an inexperienced teenager to look after their two babies for little over $100 a week...
Since each Faculty member is required to teach a certain number of classes and periods of leave are restricted, the requirement to serve jail time for any extended period of time would result in the loss of tenure...
What is the point of spending $25,000-$30,000 a year to keep someone like now 17-year old Edward O'Brien in adult jail for the rest of his life with no hope of parole? It seems a needless waste of his life and of state resources when the same sum could be used to try and rehabilitate him at the same time he is punished. Rehabilitation may be nearly hopeless for some hardened adult criminals, but youth is more supple and amenable to change. Why so easily give up hope that O'Brien may one day become...