Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end Giselle had not yet been told where her husband is being held or the nature of the charges against him. The most likely indictment: engaging in anti-Soviet propaganda−an offense that carries a maximum term of seven years in prison and an additional five years in exile...
...achieve our country, and change the history of the world?" With cautious romanticism, Braden is half tempted to think so, because, like Baldwin, but perhaps incorrectly, he assumes that the black has not been conned by the myths of white America−above all, by the "ideology of maximum production and maximum consumption." At any rate, Braden, an amateur theologian (The Private Sea), concludes that nothing short of a religious conversion can save America. Technology is beyond reversal−"that which can be done must be done" is the law of applied science. But the country's attitude toward...
Disorderly conduct carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail or a $200 fine...
...years in jail. Melville faced up to 390 years, and Hughey 25 years. Under the bargain made with the prosecution, most of the charges concerning the actual planting of bombs contained in the 19-count indictment were dismissed. Melville-who also admitted one bombing-can now get a maximum...
...focus on university-government relations empties the phrase "politically organize" of its original significance. University politics is sandlot politics. It is not political, in the immediate or the ultimate sense; it does not pertain to the public sphere of votes and power. Students with a taste for maximum returns would do better to organize the Harvard alumni rather than ineffectual academics...