Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million in proposed financial aid, more than two-thirds will go to bail out three financially strapped countries: Jamaica, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. This money will merely permit these countries to handle their huge debt burdens for the rest of the year--not to initiate any new development program...
...taken a hands-off attitude toward the debts of its satellites. Records of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, however, show increases in Soviet borrowings and steep drops in its foreign currency reserves. Says a highly placed international financier: "Part of this activity is clearly being used to bail out Poland." Bankers in New York City also say that the Soviets are helping the Poles pay their debt-servicing charges...
Under the proposed revisions, existing laws directed specifically against anti-draft and anti-war protesters would be strengthened, a new provision would target anti-nuclear power activists for special investigation and prosecution. The bill would give judges broad new powers to deny bail and to imprison people accused of any crime while they await trail. This so-called preventive detention seems to conflict with the Eighth Amendment and certainly undermines the basic assumption that a person is innocent until proven guilty. The legislation would also effectively nullify the "exclusionary rule" that has invalidated the use of evidence obtained illegally...
Opponents of Reagan's bail-out clause further argue that exempting locals because of clear records would cause unsolvable problems of definition; jurisdictions with biased voting procedures could go scot-free. The slightest possibility that jurisdictions have not eliminated their discriminatory codes should suffice to keep pre-clearance in force...
...might consider taking out insurance, but who has not so far, is New York City Criminal Court Judge Alan Friess. Last year Friess was censured for inviting a woman murder suspect, whom he had released without bail, to stay overnight in his home with him and his girlfriend. Now Friess has touched off another minor furor. Faced with a repeat offender in a pickpocket case, Friess proposed a novel way to set the sentence. He offered the defendant the chance to toss a coin: heads for 30 days, tails for 20. The coin came up tails. Friess's flip...