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...long run, overcrowding means cost-effective operations for the school because the number of students automatically dwindles to the maximum capacity B.U. can accomodate, Carleton said. "It's sort of like airline overbooking," he said...
Chastened by a 1980 prison riot that left 33 convicts dead, New Mexico built a new maximum-security facility near Santa Fe with a surveillance system that was supposedly state of the art. But a snafu in the electric eyes plus a tight budget that cut out the nighttime roof guard allowed the Independence Day escape of two killers and five other felons...
...tired, he stood expressionless last week while Presiding Judge Andre Cerdini read the verdict that had been reached after more than six hours of deliberation by nine jurors and three judges. The former SS officer was found guilty on all 341 counts of crimes against humanity. His sentence, the maximum, was life imprisonment...
BANKS. Until deregulation gave them relief in 1980, banks and thrift institutions were rapidly losing business to competitors ranging from Sears to Merrill Lynch, whose money-market funds could legally offer much higher yields than the 5 1/4% maximum savings-account rate. But the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act gradually abolished limits on interest, enabling banks and thrifts to offer lucrative accounts like Super NOW checking. The new law was a boon for savers, since it touched off interest- rate wars among financial institutions competing for consumer deposits...
Though no West Germans were involved in the hijacking, the government asserted that Hamadei could be prosecuted for murder and air piracy under international antiterrorism conventions. The maximum sentence for murder is life imprisonment...