Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STEREO is drowning out your efforts to finish that moral reasoning paper due tomorrow, your head is spinning and your patience exhausted. You decide to speak to the offending roommate, but what will you say if your initial plea for silence is disregarded...
...great hope of Corazon Aquino's ascension to power was that the Communist insurgents might heed her plea to disarm and join in the rebuilding of Philippine society. That hope got a lift when the Communist New People's Army agreed last December to a 60-day cease-fire, a first for the 18-year-old rebel insurgency. But the truce broke down last month amid bitter charges and countercharges. The Ministry of Defense estimates that at least 350 people have died since the fighting resumed. The violence often plays out in a lethal tit for tat. Last week, after...
...region around the town of Lago Agrio, teams of rescue workers ferried in emergency aid by helicopter. An urgent plea for outside help yielded planeloads of food, medicine and tents, including 50 tons of supplies from the U.S. By week's end officials were expressing serious concern about longer-term environmental damage. The mud slides and oil spills, said Health Minister Jorge Bracho, may have "modified the whole region of the Ecuadorian Amazon...
...unusually emotional courtroom finale, the Pollards pleaded desperately for clemency. But despite the fact that Pollard entered a guilty plea last summer and since then had been cooperating to some degree with the Government in fingering the Israeli officials with whom he had worked, U.S. District Court Judge Aubrey Robinson Jr. concluded that Pollard's crime merited the harshest punishment the court could impose...
Moreover, I am making a plea to Cambridge dog owners asking them to refrain from using Harvard and Cambridge as their litterbox. Harvard students don't party on your lawns. Don't potty on ours...