Word: maximum
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...stake in the trial was far more than the maximum penalty of $30,000 in fines. Ford's losses in civil suits resulting from Pinto accidents already total millions of dollars. Executives feared that a guilty verdict in Winamac could expose the firm to untold millions of dollars in punitive damages-a penalty above and beyond a plaintiffs actual losses-in the nearly 40 Pinto cases still pending. Little wonder, then, that Ford was reportedly willing to budget $1 million for its defense, which was headed by James Neal, 50, the gravel-voiced Tennessean who was chief prosecutor...
Some legislation is already in effect to help save the manatees. The 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibits molesting, capturing or killing them, and is backed by stiff fines and jail terms for offenders. The 1978 Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act restricts boat speeds in critical areas (maximum penalty: $1,000 and a year in jail) and even forbids divers from enticing the animals into underwater play...
When convicted pimp Sterling Godfrey walked out of the federal prison in Atlanta in 1977, after serving nearly five years of a maximum 15-year term, he still owed his $35,000 fine. But Godfrey said he was short of cash, so the U.S. Attorney's Ofiice in the capital obligingly allowed him to pay exactly $10 a month, thus giving him almost three centuries to pay his debt to society. Godfrey fell behind that undemanding schedule, even though the FBI discovered that he had re-established a lucrative prostitution business, opened a bicycle shop and acquired a Cadillac...
...were moving too hastily against Jones, the first black superintendent in Dade County his tory, and Barnes, who is also black. But last week both were suspended from their jobs without pay and indicted for second-degree grand theft. They plan to plead not guilty. If convicted, they face maximum penalties of five years in prison and $10,000 fines. Jones, who had hitherto received high marks from the school board, and Barnes, an educator for twelve years, may also face the prospect of careers go ing down the drain...
Perhaps that's an overstatement, but the IAB is no bargain. Fans must walk up four long flights of stairs to the court. Maximum capacity is about 1600, smallest in the Ivy League, and that does not mean 1600 seats. More like bleachers which are pulled out for games. Not exactly the big time...