Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken with his campaign achievement, narrow though it was, that he tried it with arms control, springing a plan for huge cuts on the Soviets. He offended the Kremlin with his arrogance and lost precious years in arms control. Had Reagan heeded Speaker Tip O'Neill's plea to meet him partway and moderate the deep tax cuts of 1981, the deficits and debt might not now threaten Reagan's place in the history books...
Once the charges were brought against Washburn and he had entered a plea of guilty, he was relieved of his duties at Harvard and very quietly prosecuted. This was no normal defendant...
...years ago, Mark Baltes, a 28-year-old electrician, was killed by a hit-and-run driver. A possible suspect, unknown to the police, hired attorney Barry Krischer to represent him. But after agreeing to plea bargain with prosecutors, Krischer was himself brought to trial by Baltes parents--as part of a $6 million damage suit--in an attempt to discover his client's name...
Others may argue that the person's identity shouldn't matter, because everyone is equal before the law and entitled to equal protection. But even in a plea bargaining situation, knowledge of the defendant's background is essential to the realization of justice. Even in cases less serious than manslaughter, such as simple robbery, identity is crucial. While a person's innocence or guilt should be decided without reference to personal history, the punishment should take into account various factors in the person's past, such as whether this was the first or tenth offense or, in the case...
Down on the pebbly beach, where small waves skip in one after another, the fence stops short of the water. Its concrete foundations have been laid bare by erosion; on one concrete post someone has written SIN FRONTERAS (without borders). Whether a plea or a demand, the slogan seems more appropriately a dream. Rich man, poor man, Anglo and Hispanic. They might well rub shoulders along this frontier, but they are still set apart by more than just a river, a fence or a line of marker posts...