Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this deal quietly and without publicity. That meeting stayed secret. "We didn't want any ceremony," says Stein. "That proved we could deal with them honorably and they would deal with us honorably." Lewinsky's team made clear from the outset that they would not allow their client to plead guilty to any crime. Don't even talk about a plea, they said. And Starr agreed...
...consider, if you will, the father of a five-year-old girl who will soon plead guilty to sexually molesting his daughter and burning her alive during a custody battle with her mother. After confessing on an Internet chat line, he was arrested and the case re-opened despite an earlier ruling that the fire had been an accident...
...Internet confessor Larry Froistad Jr. will plead guilty to the murder of his 5-year-old daughter Amanda. Froistad, who today also faces federal charges of trafficking in child pornography, could be sentenced to as much as life in prison without parole...
...Politicians have moved into the power vacuum, but their strengths are in vote getting, not policymaking. A legislative committee is now in charge of shaping plans to reform Japan's banking system, for instance. But Japanese politicians do not have big budgets for experienced staff. Even if they could plead for help from the bureaucrats, that might not be wise. Consider the diplomat who was reassigned to Tokyo this year to direct one ministry's derivatives operations: he confessed to an economist friend in Washington before he left that he didn't have a clue how derivatives worked. As former...
...short of the $51.1 million that "Men in Black" grossed last year on the Fourth of July. Add to this the fact that "Godzilla" earned $35 million less than last year's Memorial Day winner, "The Lost World," and you might think the major studios are ready to plead poverty. But in fact, box office receipts are up 9 percent from last summer. Though the much-hyped blockbusters aren't quite blockbusting, other surprise successes such as "Mulan" and "Dr. Dolittle" have been attracting audiences quietly and reliably...