Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number expected-on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol. "We want jobs," they chanted. One placard read: HELP FOR CHRYSLER WHAT ABOUT US? The demonstration was preceded by a week of hard lobbying by Jackson, during which he met with President Carter to make a direct plea for more youth job funding. "We have a real depression in the black community," said Jackson...
...Iacocca wanted a "gentleman's agreement" with the Japanese to cut back exports; Ford's chairman, Philip Caldwell, and the U.A.W.'s Fraser wanted still tougher restrictions; GM's Murphy opposed forcing a halt in imports from Japan. In the midst of his plea for pressure on the Japanese, Fraser looked across the polished table and saw Murphy about to start a rebuttal. Said the U.A.W. leader puckishly: "Now, Tom, keep quiet. I didn't interrupt...
...Scott Air Force Base, the Military Airlift Command dispatched C-141 Starlifters and C-130 Hercules cargo craft to carry ambulances, trucks, tents and even a mobile hospital to the refugee centers. Field kitchens, showers and 27 tons of C rations were flown in. Carter yielded to the plea of Florida Governor Bob Graham and the state's Congressmen and declared a state of emergency in Southern Florida. That will enable local authorities to be repaid from federal funds for their emergency help to the refugees. The President also made $10 million available from a refugee emergency fund...
...Boston there are enough swamis for a softball team. Harvey Cox, Gallagher Professor of Divinity, said in his book Turning East that Cambridge is so full of holy men it should be rechristened the "Benares-on-the-Charles." Just walking through the Square you can hear an impassioned plea for a peculiar form of world peace from a member of the Unification Church, sample being "processed" by Scientology aficionados, and glance at a poster asking "have you seen the Lenticular Clouds today?" which discusses the conscious, playful clouds that have "been appearing" lately. If you head for a little respite...
...women from FLAG regarded their mission as personal diplomacy, a people-to-people plea for help. Said Mrs. Rosen: "We are not asking for diplomatic or economic sanctions. Everyone is talking hostage, hostage, hostage. But they are people. We are trying to get back to the human factor." The women hoped, said Mrs. Kennedy, that the botched rescue attempt would "not deter America's allies from continuing to support the U.S. in its actions against Iran." At week's end, they carried that message to Luxembourg, where the leaders of the European Community met to consider further joint...