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...Hattiesburg, where the case was transferred, found the judge innocent of accepting an illegal gift and of one perjury charge, but guilty of lying to a grand jury when he denied having anything to do with the drug case or discussing it with the prosecuting attorney. Nixon faces a maximum ten-year prison sentence and $20,000 fine for perjury. Even so, he cannot be removed from the federal bench unless he is impeached by Congress...
...difficulties of managing the malpractice insurance increases are compounded by a state law that requires physicians to charge only what the patients' medical insurance will allow. This means that regardless of actual costs, the maximum fee a doctor can charge is determined by the patient's insurance rates...
That had the machismo of matter-of-factness. It is true that the tragedy played itself out to maximum dramatic effect: the shuttle, now boringly routine, lifting off and then annihilating itself in full view of the world. It is true that television pitched itself fervently into what has become its sacramental role in national tragedies -- first wounding with its vivid repetitions of the event, then consoling, grieving, reconciling, administering the anchor's unctions. It is true that Christa McAuliffe, a teacher representing all the right things in America, rode as a nonprofessional, an innocent, into space, and her death...
...reconnaissance plane, dubbed the Blackbird, which Ott's squadron flies. The supersonic jet, routinely used for intelligence gathering, can reach altitudes of 80,000 ft. and is equipped to photograph up to 100,000 sq. mi. of territory in an hour. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the maximum penalty for two of the four counts against Ott is death...
...three facilities in Tennessee, including two juvenile facilities in Memphis, a workhouse near Chattanooga and a halfway house in Fayetteville. This week Tennessee legislators are expected to consider a proposal from C.C.A. to take over another work camp and to build and manage a new 512-bed medium-to-maximum- security prison...