Word: plea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brenson, 15, shot dead last month after refusing to surrender his ski jacket and shoes. Three days after Brenson's death, on Thanksgiving, Torey Dyson, 18, was shot in the chest. He collapsed on the sidewalk in front of a large peace mural featuring doves, a rainbow and a plea for peace in Milwaukee...
...last July, when Ontario Judge Francis Kovacs banned substantive coverage of Homolka's trial and barred foreign journalists from his courtroom. Even after Homolka was sentenced to only 12 years for the barbaric deaths of two girls, the press could not report the obvious: that she had struck a plea. Canadian journalists who had attended the trial itched to write, as the Post eventually did, about how Leslie Mahaffy, 14, was hacked to bits and encased in concrete blocks, and Kristen French, 15, was held hostage for almost two weeks before her body was deposited in a dump...
Clinton rejected the Big Brother approach of Simon and Reno, one not made constitutional by the mere fact of its popularity. Hollywood probably will not heed the president's plea, but the nation should take notice of his emphasis...
First they suffered a decade of relentless layoffs and wage cuts. Then they watched hopefully as corporate profits and stock prices bounced back from the recession. But now many American workers are impatient and fed up. Their common plea: When do we get our share of the comeback? Their discontent seemed ready to boil over last week, even as striking flight attendants returned in triumph to their jobs at American Airlines. No sooner had American resumed its normal flight schedule than pilots and mechanics at United Airlines began a slowdown to protest the prospect of thousands of new layoffs...
Asylum seekers. Until a few years ago, applications were rare, totaling 200 in 1975. Suddenly, asylum is the plea of choice in the U.S. and around the world, often as a cover for economic migration. U.S. applications were up to 103,000 last year, and the backlog tops 300,000 cases. Under the present asylum rules, practically anyone who declares that he or she is fleeing political oppression has a good chance to enter the U.S. Chinese are almost always admitted, for example, if they claim that China's birth-control policies have limited the number of children they...