Word: options
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would cost thirty cents in Mexico and three dollars in New York City -- "incommensurate with a $30,000 fine." However, one of Leary's lawyers, Joel Finer of Austin, Texas, called the heavy sentence "meaningless" because it is not a final sentence. Finer explained that Judge `Connally had an option to impose final sentence on Leary Friday or to commit him for 90-day psychiatric observation first...
...most cases, the Judge would have simply pronounced final sentence. But because Leary had no prior criminal record and the judge had little information on him, he chose to invoke the 90-day commitment option...
...Weaver reasoned: "It is an escape from changing neighborhoods, lower-class encroachment, inadequate public services and inferior schools. It is running away from the ugly facts of urban life; facts that have always existed, but never for long on the doorstep of 'nice people' who had the option of escape...
Management is now in the hands of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Carter, 45, a rough 250-pounder who proclaimed shortly after taking over: "I know how to handle a sick company." Carter was lured from a Corning Glass vice-presidency nine years ago with a stock option offer of 23,800 shares (he now owns 52,250 shares worth almost $11 million). Sherman Fairchild withdrew discreetly to the board, has been more concerned with his chairmanship of the completely separate Fairchild Hiller aerospace firm, which recently bought Republic Aviation...
...commission has now proposed a new federal law to outlaw such harassment, and has advised the Office of Education to refuse the free-choice option to districts that have failed to create a "climate conducive to acceptance of the law." Its report also urged the Government to explore new methods of integration, notably complete abandonment of Negro schools in small districts where neither free choice nor zoning has broken the color...