Word: plea
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...markets that it already knows. But allegations directed at the company's industrial-diamond and jet-engine businesses show that GE has been unsteady there as well. Insisting that GE had done nothing wrong, Welch refused a Justice Department offer in February to settle the diamond probe with a plea of no contest. "We think our chances of winning are good," he says, "but you never know before a jury...
Powell proved convincing. He responded to the concerns of Cedras and his wife with a heartfelt plea to military honor: when a mission became impossible, the duty of a commander was to protect the soldiers serving under him and not get them killed. Cedras and his wife listened intently. It was, said Nunn, "a very strong and, I think, decisive argument...
...turned out, Katzenberg escaped the jaws of a lion but got devoured by a mouse. Last week the empire that Mickey built announced that Katzenberg, 43, was resigning Sept. 30, when his contract with the company expires. Chairman Michael Eisner, 52, had rebuffed his longtime protege's plea to succeed the late Frank Wells as second-in-command. And rather than stay as czar of all the % rushes -- supervising Disney's huge, 40-film-a-year slate, including the bijou animation unit -- Katzenberg walked. Joe Roth, the former movie boss of 20th Century Fox who was running the Caravan unit...
...latest tide could pour out of southwestern Rwanda this week, when the last of 2,500 French soldiers who established a safe zone in June for 1.5 million frightened Hutu are scheduled to depart. Under domestic pressure to bring its troops home, the French government last week ignored a plea by the U.S. to stay on until the situation stabilizes. The Hutu fear that the African troops of the United Nations force replacing the French will not be able to guarantee their safety. Also poised to move in are soldiers from the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front. "We want...
...risked a year in jail and $2,500 in fines -- after he called the Associated Humane Societies to get the carcass. The AHS promptly filed charges against him. The judge found a loophole in state law that allows slaughter if vermin damage crops or livestock. But it took a plea-in-verse from local prosecutor Christopher Howard to put things in perspective: "Because the killing of a rat by this man of this repute/ The state concludes does not fall within the criminal statute." Stacey China, the Star-Ledger (Newark) reporter who broke the story, told TIME Daily...