Word: pleadingly
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...Administrative Board yesterday announced that students will be able to plead their cases before the board and to bring an adviser with them in addition to their Senior Tutor...
...strangely quiet last week. After seven years of a Moscow-backed civil war with Muslim guerrillas, the government began a six-month cease-fire, called by Afghan Communist Party Leader Najibullah. Fifty foreign correspondents were taken on carefully planned tours of Kabul the day Najibullah appeared on television to plead with rebels to join the cease-fire...
...solely because he was assassinated, as so many Americans wrongly assume. In times scarred by the senseless bigotry of the Howard Beach incident, by a President eager to orchestrate the deracination of the legislative gains of the 1960s, and by self-serving Black conservative academicians who plead for cessation of all civil rights activity, our nation must look back in time to King's accomplishments and his vision...
...reasoned, might improve his standing with Republican hawks who doubt Bush's grit. An aide recalled this judgment with a rueful chuckle last week as Bush labored to free himself from one of Iranscam's many tentacles. With his presidential prospects damaged by the broader scandal, Bush had to plead ignorance of what two of his assistants were doing and at the same time deny they had done anything improper. A defensive crouch is a disabling posture...
...largest" settlement obtained by the SEC for insider-trading activity. After a 16 1/2-month transition period in which Boesky will gradually dispose of his holdings, he will be barred for life from stock trading in the U.S. The tall, impeccably tailored Wall Street superstar has agreed to plead guilty to a single, unspecified criminal charge. Said Boesky in a contrite statement: "My life will be forever changed, but I hope that something positive will ultimately come out of this situation...