Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that scientists making decisions are no different from other people making decisions. They act as men rather than as professionals, and they choose on the basis of sudden hatreds and loves, factional loyalties, and personal tastes. I was therefore surprised when he concluded his last lecture with a plea for more scientists at the top levels of our government. Although I might agree, it just didn't seem to follow...
...with little porkpie beanies on their heads. Between them, they constituted one of the world's noisiest Parliaments. Each speaker was greeted with cries of "Heah, heah" from his friends and derisory shouts of "Sit down, you wretched fool" from his foes; from the rostrum came the perennial plea for "Odah, odah!" But somehow, through the din, the nation's problems got discussed and decided...
...lawyers had taken a hard look at the evidence in the cases filed by U.S. Attorney Robert Bicks and had not liked what they were up against. The best way out, the lawyers decided, was to use a legal device-a plea of nolo contendere, or no contest. The defendants thereby would concede no guilt, although they would subject themselves to the same penalties as if they were guilty, thereby avoiding a trial...
Damaged Image. By so pleading, the companies would be able to avoid frontpage trial publicity that might severely damage their long-nurtured images in the public eye. "Everyone who went out to buy a toaster," cracked a Government lawyer, "would think he was being overcharged." Furthermore, such a plea might discourage manufacturers who had purchased the price-fixed equipment from bringing civil suits to collect the triple damages allowed under the law. Reason: a nolo plea, unlike a guilty plea, cannot be used as an admission of guilt in a civil court, and evidence would have to be gathered...
...building costs so high that the project would be uneconomical. Hilton's attorney finally took the fight to the California district court. There last week Tabler won. The court ordered the city to issue a building permit. Appeals by the city may delay the actual start, despite a plea from San Francisco merchants to let the court decision stand...