Word: putnam
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...more TIME staff members have books that will be available next month. Contributor Richard Schickel's Cary Grant: A Celebration (Little, Brown) is a long essay on Grant's film career and the creation of his screen personality. Associate Editor Walter Isaacson's Pro and Con (Putnam) is subtitled Both Sides of Dozens of Unsettled and Unsettling Arguments, and consists of 60 chapters on controversies large and small from abortion to creationism to baseball's designated-hitter rule...
...trouble started in May 1981, when Sidney Jaffe, a prominent Toronto land developer, failed to appear for a pretrial hearing in rural Putnam County, Fla.; the charges involved criminal violations of the state's Uniform Land Sales Practices Law by a Florida real estate firm Jaffe owned. Faced with the loss of $137,000 it had posted in bail, the Accredited Surety & Casualty Co. decided not to wait for a formal extradition request and instead sent Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear to Toronto to bring Jaffe back. Like most modern-day bounty hunters, Johnsen and Kear figured they would...
Convicted in Putnam County on 28 counts of land-sale irregularities, plus one count of failing to appear for his trial, Jaffe, now 58, was sentenced to 35 years. Florida legal observers were astonished at the severity of his sentence, especially since no one else has ever been charged under the 1963 state statute...
...nation, it has been scrupulously cooperative in complying with U.S. requests for the extradition of fugitives. Florida's failure to file the forms and cowboy-style tactics hardly seemed justified. Under a 1971 U.S.-Canada treaty, Florida Governor Robert Graham could have requested Jaffe's extradition. But Putnam County State Attorney Stephen Boyles never provided the Governor with the necessary documentation...
...once the Corporation forwards its salary parameters to individual fiefdoms around the University, market considerations give way to what administrators call "equity" concerns. An official's salary can diverge up to about 3 percent from the average set by the Corporation, Putnam says. How much it does depends entirely on the judgment of one person: the individual's supervisor...