"It appears that the asset is secure," said Richard H. Cate, vice president for finance and administration at the University of Vermont, because, he said, much of the $9.3 billion is held in securities that will become available when they mature.
Mr. Hua is being held in a Beijing State Security Detention Center, his relatives said, the same one that held the other American academic, Song Yongyi, earlier this year.
"The security authorities have not stated why she was apprehended and they are still being held in a security building at the airport," the lawyer added.
The train robbers were held in maximum security in a specially built unit at Durham.
As I said earlier, I was imprisoned in 2003 for three years, held in maximum security on electoral fraud charges.
They concluded that they did: similar prisoners held in higher security jails were 10-15 pointstage points more likely to be re-arrested after being released.
We're seeing more people being held in higher security levels, being placed in segregation.
In economics, too, there are exceptions--for instance, long-term investments in pension funds or the money held in Social Security.
These countries' foreign reserves, mainly held in US securities, topped $8tn at their peak last year.
Both men, officials said, will be held in maximum-security cells at either Rikers Island, the city's sprawling East River prison complex, or the Brooklyn House of Detention.
