Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believed in discipline, and discipline began with himself. He knew his mind. He made quick decisions and stuck to them. Confronted with a problem, a plea, an argument-he always allowed room for argument-he would tilt back in his swivel chair, eyes on the ceiling, hands clasped behind his head...
Still to be settled, however, were strikes by 400,000 schoolteachers and the Iran Air employees. The airline walkout stranded some 20,000 devout Muslims headed for Mecca on the annual hajj (pilgrimage). A plea by religious leaders failed to get the workers back on the job to enable the pilgrims "to perform their religious duties toward Allah." The Shah himself stepped in and ordered the Imperial Air Force to transport the pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. Parents were growing impatient with the school closings, even if their offspring were not. Many schoolchildren took to the streets to join demonstrators...
...system is not that it works badly but that it appears to work badly. Image is of no small importance. Making people believe that the law works ?and works fairly?is a better way to stop crime, says Silberman, than stuffing more criminals into already overcrowded jails. Bringing plea-bargaining negotiations out into the open, establishing formal sentencing guidelines, and simply treating victims and witnesses more decently would help restore respect for the law. Nevertheless, Silberman cautions, the courts alone cannot...
LAST WEEK: 2-2 (a plea of temporary insanity...
ALDO LEOPOLD wrote his impassioned plea for a land ethic more than 30 years ago, three years after the holocausts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But little has changed in America, (or anywhere else, for that matter.) Man is still intoxicated with his own technology, and through his creations he feels he must tinker with the forces of nature to accommodate his limitless whims and needs...