Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his collaborator's efforts and fired him. When Forçade requested $5,000 for the work he had already done, Hoffman refused. Forçade started legal action, and it looked as if Hoffman was headed for yet another courtroom. Then a friend suggested that a panel of Movement people might provide truer justice. Forçade and Hoffman agreed, and stated in writing that they would abide by the decision. They settled on ground rules for the proceeding and chose three arbitrators: Howard Levy, 34, the former Army doctor who served 26 months in jail...
...request for more money because of his troubles collecting was disallowed as "unreasonable." But the panel nonetheless offered Forçade a unique opportunity to get the balance of the $5,000. Hoffman is to sell him up to 10,000 copies of Steal This Book at cost. Forçade will then be free to resell the books on his own through the underground channels he was originally supposed to develop...
...California for years. Sometimes, as in the case of George Jackson, they have had the effect of absurdly prolonging prison terms because parole examiners did not like a convict's attitude. But the system would work, it has been argued, if inmates were regularly reviewed by a panel of psychologists as well as parole officers. Some reformers would like the original sentences fixed by correction officers and psychologists instead of judges. If fixed, sentences should be shorter -on the average, those in America are longer than comparable prison terms in a western European democracy...
When the red warning light flashed on the instrument panel of the Israeli air-force helicopter, one passenger had good reason to be alarmed. Said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who suffered a broken back in a 1964 plane crash: "I've been through this before. Fasten your seat belts." The order was unnecessary; the chopper carrying the Senator and wife Joan Kennedy to a meeting with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made a safe emergency landing on a beach south of Tel Aviv, giving the Kennedys an opportunity to stroll around and collect sea shells. Said the unflustered Joan...
...mere 5% use the harnesses. To protect people more effectively, the Department of Transportation has ordered that all 1974 model cars be equipped with some kind of passive restraint, which in effect means "air bags": huge porous plastic bags that must pop out like balloons between motorist and instrument panel. They must inflate within forty-thousandths of a second after automatic sensors detect a collision, and then quickly deflate. In theory, at least, such a system could save at least 40% of the lives now lost in head-on crashes...