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Bail
Bail: money or conditions set by a court to secure a criminal defendant's release before trial. Also called cash bail or pretrial release. Distinguished by English common-law origins, the 1966 and 1984 U.S. Bail Reform Acts, and Illinois's 2023 abolition of cash bail.
Bail bondsman
A bail bondsman, or bail bond agent, guarantees a criminal defendant's court appearance for a nonrefundable fee, an occupation existing almost entirely in the United States.
Bail in the United States
Bail in the United States is the pretrial release system based on money or conditions guaranteeing court appearance. Key facts: Eighth Amendment limits, 24 states with expanded preventive detention, Illinois first to abolish cash bail in 2023, mixed reform evidence.
Baili Tianheng (百利天恒)
Baili Tianheng (百利天恒) is a Chengdu-based biopharmaceutical company developing antibody-drug conjugates, founded by Zhu Yi in 1996 and listed on the STAR Market since 2023.
Bailiff
Bailiff: officer executing court orders, from Old French baillif (c. 1300). Covers medieval English estate and Crown officers, modern England and Wales enforcement agents, US courtroom bailiffs, and the French commissaire de justice.
Bailiff Byrd
Bailiff Byrd is Petri Hawkins Byrd (born 1957, Brooklyn), the only bailiff on Judge Judy for all 25 seasons (1996–2021), a former real New York court officer with Sheindlin, later bailiff on Tribunal Justice.
Bailout
A bailout is the rescue of a distressed entity by a government using systemic-risk justifications; the U.S. government provided financial-sector support 16 times between 1970 and 2020.
Bailundo
Bailundo (Umbundu: Mbalundu) was an Ovimbundu kingdom in the central highlands of Angola, emerging around 1700 and defeated by Portugal in the Bailundo War of 1902 to 1903.
Bailundu
Bailundu, also spelled Bailundo or Mbalundu, was one of the most powerful Ovimbundu kingdoms in the central highlands of Angola, defeated by Portugal in the Bailundo War of 1902–03.
Baiming Xinkang (百明信康)
Baiming Xinkang (百明信康) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in Shanghai in 2018 that develops allergen-specific and autoimmune immunotherapies on its PCFiT and Apitope peptide platforms.
Bain & Company
Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston and one of the three big strategy consultancies known as MBB, founded by Bill Bain in 1973.
Bain Capital
Bain Capital is a Boston-based alternative investment firm founded by Mitt Romney in 1984, managing roughly $230 billion in private equity, credit, and real estate.
Bain Capital Asia
Bain Capital Asia is the pan-Asian private equity platform of Boston-based Bain Capital, investing across Japan, India, China, Australia, and Korea since its first fund in 2007.
Bain Capital Double Impact
Bain Capital Double Impact is the impact-investing private equity platform of Bain Capital, established in Boston in 2015 to pursue financial returns alongside measurable social and environmental impact.
Bain Capital Europe
Bain Capital Europe is the European private equity arm of Boston-based Bain Capital, which opened its London office in 2000 and has raised six Europe buyout funds.
Bain Capital Insurance
Bain Capital Insurance is the insurance-focused private equity unit of Bain Capital, based in Boston and launched in 2021 under Matt Popoli; its first fund closed at $1.15 billion in 2023.
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities is a technology-focused private equity strategy of Bain Capital, based in Boston, investing in software, fintech, security, and healthcare IT companies.
Bain Capital Ventures
Bain Capital Ventures is the multi-stage venture capital arm of Bain Capital, headquartered in Boston with offices in the Bay Area and New York, managing over $10 billion.
Bain family murders
Bain family murders: killings of Robin, Margaret, Laniet, Arawa, and Stephen Bain in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 20 June 1994. David Bain was convicted in 1995, cleared by the Privy Council in 2007, acquitted at a 2009 retrial, and denied compensation in 2016.
Bairam Khan (محمد بیرم خان)
Bairam Khan (محمد بیرم خان), Baharlu Turkmen noble of Qara Qoyunlu origin, regent and wakil al-saltana for Akbar, victor of Panipat 1556, assassinated 1561 in Gujarat.
Bairong Financial (百融金融)
Bairong Financial, also known as Bairong Yunchuang (百融云创), is a Chinese fintech company founded by Zhang Shaofeng in 2014, selling AI credit analytics to banks and insurers.
Baishōron
Baishōron (梅松論) is a two-volume Japanese war chronicle of the Nanbokuchō period, written by an unknown author from the Ashikaga side as a counterpart to the Taiheiki.
Bait-and-switch
Bait-and-switch: deceptive sales practice of advertising a product the seller never intends to sell, then switching customers to a pricier alternative; illegal under FTC Act Section 5, distinct from loss leaders, and prohibited in Canada and the UK.
Baiterek
Baiterek is Kazakhstan's state-owned development holding, created by presidential decree in 2013 to support lending to small businesses, housing, agriculture, and infrastructure, distinct from the asset-holding Samruk-Kazyna.
Baiwang Cloud (百望云)
Baiwang Cloud (百望云), formally Baiwang Co., Ltd., is a Chinese tax digitalization SaaS company founded in Beijing in 2015 by siblings Chen Jie and Chen Lin.
Baixa de Cassanje revolt
The Baixa de Cassanje revolt, also called Maria's War, was a January 1961 uprising by cotton-growing peasants in northern Angola against the compulsory cotton regime of Cotonang.
Baiyue (百越)
Baiyue (百越, also 百粵) is the blanket Qin-Han term for the many unrelated Yue peoples of southern China and northern Vietnam, with branches such as Minyue, Nanyue, Xi'ou, and Luoyue; noted for tattooing, boat use, and bronze drums, they were absorbed under Qin-Han commanderies.
Baiza Bai
Baiza Bai (बाईजाबाई) was a Maratha queen of Gwalior State who served as regent for the Scindia dynasty from 1827 to the early 1830s and was also a banker.
Baizhang Huaihai
Baizhang Huaihai (百丈怀海) was a Tang dynasty Chan master on Baizhang Mountain in Hongzhou, remembered for the rule "a day without work is a day without food."
Baizuo (白左)
Baizuo (白左, "white left") is a derogatory Chinese internet neologism for Western liberals seen as obsessed with political correctness; coined on Renren in 2010, it surged after the 2015 refugee crisis and 2016 US election and was later adopted by Western conservatives such as Tucker Carlson.