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...city manager's report says all the city can do is plead with the businesses in Cambridge for a few crumbs from their table. I don't believe that," Sullivan said. The employment committee will hold a hearing on the voluntary jobs proposal tonight...
...building to the ground. The government reacted to the disturbances with strong hints that Solidarity might soon be banned outright. Government Spokesman Urban told foreign reporters that "the entire leadership of Solidarity cannot be considered as worthy partners for negotiations." From now on, he said, the regime would plead its case directly with the workers, whose "hearts and minds," he claimed, were now closer to the government's policies than to Solidarity's leaders, including Walesa...
...afternoon, and it was now around 6:30 p.m. Prosecutor Warren Von Schuch was worried. As he later put it, "The longer a [jury] panel is out, the worse shape we're in." And so he proposed a deal to Seigler's attorneys: their client would plead guilty to first-degree murder and robbery and receive a 60-year prison term, with 20 years suspended...
...echoed in the House, proceeds along the lines of an entertaining but abject logic: STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN. The sponsors of the amendment to mandate balanced federal budgets have flocked to the Constitution, as to the Wizard of Oz, to ask for a superego, to plead for the discipline that they have been unable to enforce upon themselves. It is an evasive and unworthy and essentially political exercise. The oldest living constitution in the world should not be dragged onstage to perform in such charades. It is undignified...
...waved to his wife Christine and mother Ivy. When his solicitor, Maurice Nadeem, questioned whether Fagan could still pose a threat to the Queen after this week's security improvements, the prisoner bristled. "I told you not to fetch her name up," Fagan said, glaring. "I would rather plead guilty than have her name dragged into this...