Word: furlough
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George Bush understood America's gullibility around the issue of race. You think Dan Quayle was Bush's running mate? It was Willie Horton," Stith said referring to a much-publicized ad campaign focusing on a Black convict who raped a white woman while on furlough from prison...
...days left before the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deadline falls. If no agreement can be reached on paring the deficit to $64 billion by Oct. 1, across-the-board spending cuts -- the so-called sequester -- will go into effect, closing airports, canceling children's vaccinations and forcing federal prisons to furlough hundreds of inmates. Although the deficit problem may seem familiar, even tiresome, it is more acute than ever: Administration estimates for this year have grown from $100 billion to $161 billion, largely because the economy is growing less quickly than anticipated. Last week the Labor Department reported that civilian unemployment...
Collor has run into other problems. The Central Union of Workers, representing many government employees, has threatened work stoppages to block the privatization of state-owned industries. A plan to furlough bureaucrats has stumbled on a provision of the 1988 constitution that grants lifetime employment guarantees to all civil servants with five years' tenure. The President has tried to circumvent the law by putting employees on "reserve" status and reducing their pay, but the Supreme Court has stifled that effort...
...greed decade. Slick securities speculator Ivan Boesky made millions with investors' money. The inside trader paid a record $100 million to settle civil charges for his high jinks and later was sentenced to three years in a federal prison. When he was recently released on a furlough, he emerged sporting a ragged Howard Hughes- style beard...