Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While James Callaghan was making his plea to the trades unions for moderation, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher was flying off for an eight-day visit to the U.S. Buoyed by recent by-election triumphs and polls showing her party well ahead of Labor, Mrs. Thatcher is confident that she will soon become Britain's first woman Prime Minister. Partly because of a casual commitment made on his visit to Britain last May, Jimmy Carter is making an exception in her case to a new White House practice that opposition leaders are received by the Vice President. While in Manhattan...
...parents who despair that their children will ever receive a proper public education. "These quality programs exist in reality in only a few places, while hundreds of thousands of children are totally neglected," reports Narrator Patricia Neal, herself once paralyzed by a stroke. The program ends with a plea to see that the act is properly implemented ("Talk to your P.T.A., principals, to the school board"). After the film, 109 of the stations are to broadcast follow-ups in which special education teachers, legislators and parents of the handicapped will be available to answer phone-in questions...
...issue, House Minority Leader John Rhodes thundered: "Poor economic policies have created a bad case of the jitters among the American people." Rhodes called for an across-the-board tax cut to prevent another recession. Al Ullman, Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, made the same plea. For most members of Congress as well as the public, tax reform means a tax cut-period. That is not what it means to Carter...
Some scientists feared that the document placed too much faith in technological-rather than "human"-solutions, but the plea nonetheless represents a milestone. For the first time, the international community is committing itself to the fight against the growth of deserts. While the document leaves action up to individual countries, the incentive to collaborate-perhaps even with old enemies-is great. To many countries, doing battle against the deserts is the only alternative to poverty, starvation and chaos...
...income is $25,000 a year, yet his parents have barely been able to raise the $7,000 to pay for the basics: room, board and tuition. So McCollister, who tried to find a summer job, has taken to an old form of free enterprise: begging. His plea: "Send a bright young boy to college." One woman gave him $20, but most passers-by simply pass him by. His net for 25 to 30 days of panhandling, spread over the summer: $330. Many people ask him why he doesn't get a job. As far as McCollister is concerned...