Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the plea agreements, prosecutors dismissed counts of bribery and wire fraud against Berlin and Teledyne. Racketeering charges had been dropped at an earlier court hearing...
...budgetary restraint, Washington has been unblinkingly generous toward the genome project, especially since last April, when an array of scientists testified on the subject at a congressional committee hearing. There, Nobel laureate Watson of DNA fame, since picked by the NIH to head the effort, mesmerized listeners with his plea for support: "I see an extraordinary potential for human betterment ahead of us. We can have at our disposal the ultimate tool for understanding ourselves at the molecular level . . . The time...
...uncanny prescience, the movies of 1939 seemed to anticipate what was to come. People may have gone crazy over there, they seemed to say, but here, here in America, there is still safety. Even that sunny musical, Babes in Arms, ends in a curious and, in retrospect, quite poignant, plea for peace. "We send our greetings to friendly nations," sings the chorus, led by Garland and Rooney. "We may be Yanks, but we're your relations. Drop your sabers, we're all going to be good neighbors here in God's country...
...Harvard earlier this semester. The irony of his attack on relativism is that he encourages us to ignore morality. For him, every demand from a minority group is an attempt to seek power. He refuses to accept that it might be a request for compassion, and beyond that, a plea for self-assessment...
Many lawyers contend that the rules may sharply limit plea bargaining after indictments, thus crowding court calendars. The crunch behind bars is expected to get worse. The 50,000 inmates jamming federal penitentiaries are already 60% more than capacity. "We're going to see dramatic increases in prison terms and prison overcrowding," predicts Sam Buffone, chairman of an American Bar Association committee on the sentencing system...