Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These days Barger's context is the courtroom and the San Francisco County Jail where he is held in lieu of $1 million cash bail. Both he and the prosecutors trace the roots of the present case to "the Zerby bombing." William Zerby is a former drug agent who was obsessed with nailing the Angels and was deafened in 1978 by a planted bomb. The newer, younger Hell's Angels turned meaner while Sonny was in jail. "Things changed. The whole world's meaner," he says. Sonny Barger has no regrets - except maybe about the antiwar demonstrators...
...died, leaving no will and all the "Picasso's Picassos" (45,000 works) awaiting cataloguing by the experts. Eventually, after a six-year-long legal bout, the estate, valued at up to $400 million, was distributed among the various heirs, with the French government scooping up, in lieu of taxes, 3,488 works, representing one-third of the estate's value, for the proposed Musée Picasso in Paris...
...University also sold more than a million square feet of land during the decade. The report calculates the net increase in Harvard's property holdings within the city at 708,183 square feet during the decade. Schmidt called the figures deceptive, saying the University had increased in lieu of tax payments to the city, donated a major parcel of land to Cambridge, and is currently trying to sell other parcels...
...theme, the venal rich vs. the virtuous poor, was so politically powerful in 1933 that Nazi storm troopers broke up performances. New York critics were not that harsh, but some deemed the libretto dated and the music not worth Weill. Still, uptown was heady for Grey. In lieu of Broadway's traditional "break a leg" opening night messages, a telegram from Met Tenor Placido Domingo invoked an ancient Jewish Spitzpah. "Ptui, ptui, ptui," it said, "on your operatic debut...
...time when school programs are being cut and there is a dire need for more public housing. Harvard, again along with the institutions it attracts, acts as a drain on the city's tax base, a drain that is not plugged by the University's modest in-lieu-of-tax payments...