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About 106,000 were considered eligible for the Ford program, but only 20% even applied to take advantage of it. For most, the Ford plan called for some compensatory time spent in menial work in public service institutions. Of the 8,450 offenders who entered these work programs, more than half failed to complete their assigned service and thus theoretically could still be prosecuted as criminals. The figures with which Carter is working include...
...them (5,500) for legal or other reasons. Of the remaining 4,500 only some 700 were granted clemency after applying for it. About 1,300 cases were prosecuted, resulting mainly in short sentences or probation (which is why many of those required to work for months in menial jobs consider the Ford clemency program unfair). That leaves about 2,500 civilians still under indictment. Most of them are in Canada...
...five of them Mormons, kept a 24-hour-a-day watch over Hughes and screened all his communications. According to Stewart and Margulis, the executive aides acted in effect as his keepers, at salaries ranging as high as $110,000 a year. By contrast, Stewart and Margulis performed menial jobs at relatively low salaries?about $25,000 a year. (They will collect one-third each of the profits from the Phelan book.) They were on the perimeter of the inner circle, but, especially in Stewart's case, they had constant access to the boss; they saw and heard a great...
...article does encourage assertiveness and discourages women volunteers from falling into stereotypic menial labor roles, but you can almost here the author sitting around at a policy-making session saying, "Come on now girls, all these small jobs have to be done and like it or not, we can do it best so let's put our whole effort into it and do a good...
...manifestly clear that in order to liberate language from all manner of sexist bias [Aug. 9], it should become mandatory that authors and journalists maneuver carefully through our manifold English vocabulary in every way necessary to free the written word from the menial menace of chauvinist prefixes and suffixes. Hopefully, the East Coast editorial establishment will respond to this manifesto, especially those who live and work in Manhattan. If they do not, the only alternative left open to the people is a nationwide personcott of the press...