Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them sometimes," said student school committee member Rebecca Wheeler. "I've had to stay home four times already this year--twice to take care of my younger brother when he was sick. Under this policy, if I'm absent again I would have to go before a committee to plead my case to keep my academic credit...
According to O'Reilly, often sex offenders likeElster first plead innocent because they cannotadmit their crimes but later decide to professtheir guilt in return for lighter sentences whenthe prospect of jail looms closer...
...youthful reformist ministers. The government was to try again to pass a long-delayed reform package at week's end in a special session of the Duma. Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko has had no more luck than his predecessors in budging the Duma, but now he can plead that this is a genuine crisis...
...would Clinton want to plead not guilty by reason of addiction? Doubtful: it concedes too much. Which leaves this scenario: Bill and Hillary Clinton sit down with Barbara Walters in the White House family quarters. Barbara is empowered to hear confessions and grant absolution--the priestess of high colonics for the troubled celebrity mind. Her sacramental touch, her extreme unctuousness, is the very thing to preside over the tonal subtleties of this encounter--the faux intimacy, the clucking censure, the wet sympathy. Clinton and Walters might make beautiful music together, a harmony of ineffable falsenesses...
...boon to small firms. Since our company went online with Railway Productions.com this year, we've been able to reach customers who never knew about our products. After all, how many stores sell a wide selection of videos about trains? Now we don't have to beg and plead with shop owners to give us a try. We just bypass them and go straight to the customer. LES JARRETT Indianapolis...