Word: payments
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...court in finding Tate's imprisonment a violation of his right to equal protection of the laws, sharply limited the traditional power of American judges to sentence poor defendants to "$30 or 30 days." The Constitution, said Justice William Brennan, forbids states to "limit the punishment to payment of the fine if one is able to pay, yet convert the fine into a prison term for an indigent defendant." In taking away the jail alternative, Brennan suggested various other means in which courts might deal with the poor, including the collection of fines on an installment plan...
...Duke plan, which would allow a limited number of students to defer payment on up to $1500 of their tuition and repay the university over a period of 30 years, follows in outline the Yale proposal...
Duke University has become the second major university to propose a deferred tuition payment plan. Yale first announced such a plan last December...
About 1150 Harvard and Radcliffe students have signed an agreement to withhold payment of the tax on their phone bills as a protest against the Indochina...
Wright said yesterday that the retroactive pay requirement does not yetapply to cases of racial discrimination in payment because the precedent under which the HEW investigators are operating stems from a plan filed by the University of Michigan which required back pay. No such precedent has been set for minorities yet, he said...