Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not a plea for a handout. But it indicates very clearly administrative failure. Simply put, freshmen this year will receive meals during the week from the 11th to the 18th of September as part of their meal plans. Upperclass men and women pay the exact same tuition and room and board as do freshmen but do not receive the same in return. This is clearly an unethical business practice...
...Correspondent William Stewart recently visited the Zambian capital of Lusaka to talk with Kaunda in his study at the State House, the elegant mansion that once housed the governors of Northern Rhodesia. During the interview Kaunda applauded the growing opposition to apartheid in the U.S. and made an impassioned plea for international action to save South Africa from what he believes will be a bloody revolution. Excerpts...
...with business. It is the location of trials for the lawsuits growing out of the Bhopal disaster. If the cases are heard in the U.S., the company may have to pay at least $2 billion and possibly $6 billion or more in settlements. But if Union Carbide wins its plea to have the trials held in India, where liability payments would be much lower, the cost could be $500 million or less...
...personal ad is an odd art form, a song of oneself that is also a plea, a form of courtship both funny and forlorn...
...guilty to criminal charges for not informing federal officials that Oraflex had been linked to deaths and illnesses in foreign countries before it was approved for consumption in the U.S. Lilly also failed to warn consumers that Oraflex could have side effects on the liver and kidneys. In a plea bargain worked out with the Justice Department, Lilly (1984 sales: $3.1 billion) pleaded guilty to 25 counts of unintentional deception, a misdemeanor, and was fined $25,000. Lilly's former chief medical officer, Dr. William Shedden, was fined $15,000 on similar charges...