Word: plea
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...losses, swindling a Sumitomo subsidiary out of $770 million. Sumitomo's star trader is the only person charged and faces up to 15 years in prison. British and U.S. investigators are continuing separate probes into whether he manipulated the world market, and if so, who benefited. Hamanaka?s simple plea serves two purposes. While nine out of ten criminal defendants in Japan are convicted, showing contrition usually helps to lower the sentence. In Sumitomo?s favor, the guilty plea also avoids lengthy hearings which might have shed light on the question of how Hamanaka was able to carry...
Even though our calls for Core reform have fallen on deaf ears, in light of this year's selections, we feel compelled to make our plea again: make distribution requirements so that, for example, History 1619: "The American Revolution," can count for History B. Historical studies B courses currently include the comparable "America and the Civil War" and "America and Vietnam." In addition, certain departmental science classes can fulfill the Science A and B requirements...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The National Governors Association and President Clinton are doing a complicated dance around the issue of restoring benefits to legal American immigrants. Clinton answered a plea from the governors Monday to provide more federal welfare support for legal immigrants with a firm "We'll see." The governors spent the weekend in Washington, D.C. framing a contradictory plan asking the federal government to find a way to provide the funding the states will need to cover benefits for legal immigrants without specifically asking Congress to revise the language of welfare reform, which blocked federal funding for some of those...
...State of the Union ritual requires the President to present something new, and that element remains a mystery. But McAllister suggests that Clinton may follow up on the anti-gang violence theme broached in a recent radio address with a new initiative. Otherwise, the President will probably repeat his plea that despite progress on many economic and social issues, more remains to be done. One thing viewers can count on, says McAllister, is that Clinton's speech will be fairly long. Pundits jibed the President for the length of his address last year, but McAllister says focus groups show that...
...world just how hungry its people are, and asked for help. North's Korean Central News Agency quoted an official as admitting that because of devastating floods, the country harvested only 2.5 million tons of grain last year, barely half the grain it needs to feed its population. The plea comes as the U.N. World Food Program is preparing its third appeal in a year for the country?s aid. U.N. officials called North Korea a nation "in the throes of a life-threatening food shortage," noting that its current state-provided rations have been reduced to only...