Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political action group, Citizens for Limited Taxation & Government (CLTG), hopes to find a sponsor for a bill that would name the state prison in Concord for Flaherty instead...
...bridge or a prison? Which is the most appropriate structure to bear the name of a state legislator whose 30-year career ended in a scandal of tax evasion and ethics violations charges...
...think people who have pled guilty to avoid being indicted on other counts shouldn't be honored," said Barbara Anderson, co-director of CLTG. "If they're determined to name something after him, (we) thought the state prison would be a better image...
Bhutto and Zardari were charged with corruption after she was dismissed in 1990. But there was never any conclusive evidence, and Zardari was released on bail after more than a year in prison. So while Leghari mentioned corruption in his letter, he had another more troubling reason for his action. Pakistan is chafing under austerities imposed by the International Monetary Fund, which has refused to release a $600 million standby loan if Islamabad cannot remedy its budget deficit in order to service its $28.6 billion in foreign debt. To that end Bhutto had raised taxes--but her government...
...driver of a car that hit and killed an undergraduate last May was sentenced in Litchfield, Conn. Superior Court yesterday to 10 years in prison...