Word: plea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jesse L. Jackson finished his emotional plea for party unity, delegates leapt to their feet in applause...
...Jesse L. Jackson finished his emotional plea for party unity, delegates leapt to their feet in applause...
...been accused of a crime and was not even mentioned when three rival companies agreed to settle price-fixing charges last week. But the Justice Department clearly had its sights on Archer-Daniels-Midland, the politically powerful Illinois grain processor, when it accepted sweeping plea-bargain deals with three companies accused of fixing the price of the feed additive lysine. The companies--Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo of Japan, and the U.S. arm of South Korea's Sewon--agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and pay a total of $20 million in fines to settle the case...
Berlin cites domestic and European studies in which the rate fell below 15% when participants were chemically castrated. Such figures attracted California assemblyman Bill Hoge, who, dismayed when McQuay's plea was denied, introduced the California bill. Hoge talks of prevention, not punishment. "We're trying to stop the child molester from striking again, period," he says...
...delegate! I'm supposed to be in there!" That fruitless plea was one of many being heard this week at the doors to the United Center as thousands of delegates, Democratic staff and members of the press struggle to enter the hall amid tight but amateurishly disorganized security. Michael Jordan, whose Bulls play in the Center, never saw it like this. To prevent terrorist attacks, the Secret Service has installed concrete barriers blocks away from the entrances, creating a long ragged line of delegates and reporters hauling cameras, radios, telephones and computers toward the House That Jordan Built. Once there...