Word: plea
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What we hear today in Boston and Chicago and Detroit and Louisville and Washington is a plea to an outdated sentiment and an appeal to ignorance. We hear politicians saying along with the rabble and the hatemongers that to enforce rules which would provide quality education, quality housing, equal employment and social justice would be to punish the white people of America. The deep-down prejudices of too many people are being dragged to the surface and in the process submerging rational consideration and thought and understanding. What we face today is not only the same fight we have been...
...rejecting Flanagan's plea, the majority opinion has thwarted an ugly attempt to limit the definition of a legal abortion. But in writing in an additional majority statement arguing that Edelin, as long as he did not cause its death, could not be held liable even had the fetus lived and then died, three of the justices have gone a step further: they have offered protection to doctors who perform abortions in the future. Justices Kaplan, Braucher and Wilkins recognized that when a 17-year-old woman entered Boston City Hospital in late September 1973 requesting an abortion, Edelin observed...
...Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., said they believed Bronfman had faked his imprisonment. The rope used to bind him was flimsy, for one thing, and the blindfold placed on him looked like a flip visor. According to Link, the jurors also thought Bronfman was lying when he taped an emotional plea to his father, then a moment later changed his voice and said briskly, "Do it again." On the stand, Bronfman was unconvincing. He appeared to choke up when he looked at the jury, said Link, and compose himself when he turned to the judge...
...consensus of energy experts and government leaders around the world-prominently including Jimmy Carter. The President-elect has declared that a new, more cohesive energy policy will be a top-priority goal of his Administration. Indeed, Carter plans to devote one of his earliest televised fireside chats to a plea to the nation to conserve fuel...
...electronic surveillance. We have spent an enormous amount of time in the department trying to provide proper safeguards for electronic surveillance, and I think we have. I am not satisfied to say that civil liberty is just a matter of prosecutorial discretion. The problems of granting immunity and of plea bargaining are very serious issues and are, in a sense, defacing the law. We ought to have more articulate rules...