Word: plead
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...movie critic is no more likely to ask for mercy than he is to dish it out. And his first rule is: never plead ignorance. But this time a confession and a request are in order...
...loses everything for a chance to set the record straight and doubts whether the price was worth it. Meanwhile, Bergman can't get Wigand's interview on the air at CBS; Don Hewitt and the corporate heads fear a multi-billion lawsuit from Brown and Williamson, and Bergman must plead with Hewitt and anchor Mike Wallace to get the ground-breaking interview on "60 Minutes." The loose, organic structure of the film works its magic in the first third of the movie; the pacing is deliberate and slow, allowing the film to get under Wigand's skin and into...
Whatever the strength of the government?s case, the company doesn?t appear ready to concede. "They?ve been given a chance to plead guilty to lesser charges over the last few weeks," says Novak, who first reported impending charges and the plea bargaining on TIME.com on October 11. "If the indictment goes ahead it would suggest McDonnell Douglas is taking a tough line," she says. But so is the government. "And for companies such as Loral and Hughes, which are still under investigation over exports to China, a McDonnell Douglas indictment could be cause for concern." If it does...
...ring Serbia's border with six radio transmitters that will beam Western news programs into the country 24 hours a day. Last month Robert Gelbard, U.S. special envoy to the Balkans, flew to Serbia's rebellious republic of Montenegro to meet with some 20 Serbian opposition leaders and plead with them to join forces against the regime...
...several news organizations, Kenneth Starr reached a plea agreement with presidential pal Webster Hubbell that ends the independent counsel?s last pending case. The resolution of the charges against Hubbell, expected to be announced on Wednesday, gives everyone a little something to go home with: Starr got Hubbell to plead guilty to one felony count of lying about the failed Castle Grande land deal while he was a lawyer at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas, and also one misdemeanor count involving tax evasion. Hubbell got the prosecutors to agree to no jail time. And the Clintons -- particularly Hillary Clinton...