Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the strike, representatives of Eastern's management took to the television airwaves to plead their case: the airline was losing $1 million per day. Employees must take a drastic pay cut or the airline will fold...
Statistics such as these need no further elucidation--they plead for action and reveal costs on a human level that our society can no longer tolerate...
...change could slash earnings at some firms by half and put others into the red. As corporations are forced to account for their retirement obligations, many are expected to cut such benefits for their present workers. Corporations will have until 1992 to submit their arguments against the plan or plead for a delay...
...last week it became clear that at least one American company has helped spread the deadly weapons. After Customs Service agents accused Baltimore-based Alcolac International, Inc., of illegally shipping hundreds of tons of thiodiglycol, a solvent that can be used in making mustard gas, the firm agreed to plead guilty to violating export laws. Prosecutors believe the chemical shipments eventually arrived in Iraq and Iran...
...banking house of the 1980s. After maintaining for two years that Drexel had done nothing wrong, a shaken board of directors voted 16 to 6 to accept the stiff terms proposed by Rudolph Giuliani, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The deal calls for Drexel to plead guilty to six felony counts involving mail, wire and securities fraud and to pay a record $650 million in penalties. Some $300 million of the fine would go to the Government, which has spent an estimated $10 million prosecuting the case so far, and $350 million would be set aside...