Word: remanding
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...They appeared in court on Oct. 4 as expected, but this was for further remand and review of their bail conditions," said Claudia A. McElroy, coordinator of the Africa program for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The committee, a 20-member humanitarian group, has been protesting the Zimbabwean government's treatment of the journalists for several months...
...DIED BY HIS OWN HAND, OR WAS MADE TO LOOK AS though he had. Thirteen more are in prison, most in Remand Center No. 4 in the Moscow suburbs, which has been cleared of common criminals to house only the elite of the Russian underworld -- and the accused plotters of last August's coup. There they await trial on charges of high treason. If found guilty -- and several insist they were innocent dupes -- they could be imprisoned for 10 to 15 years, or put to death. But whatever their eventual fate, one thing is totally clear: the plotters have...
...lopsided-grinning gamine best known for mugging her way through the movie Grease, there could scarcely be better parts to broaden their images. Brian and Sheila cannot have anything like a normal life if they keep their helpless spastic daughter Josephine; they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state. Yet, mercifully to audiences, the story is not their sorrow but their admirable if cockeyed determination to cope. They face their nearly intolerable burdens with a giddy, all-mocking humor, a pretend merriment that at times becomes infectiously real...
Thomas Atkins, Boston bureau director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said last week the Supreme Court should either "remand or reverse." "Reverse means," Atkins said, "to state without equivocation that, given the historical context, special efforts should be made to compensate for the inequalities of the past...
...Supreme Court does not outright reverse," Atkins continued, "it should remand for a wider record. The issue is far too important to decide on such a limited record...