Word: pleadings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Generally speaking, people don't have a lot of respect for the [council], so it doesn't encourage voters," McKean says. "If the [council] had any real decision-making authority, the seats would be more contested. But all they can do is plead with the administration...
...plead [guilty], but if I didn't do it, I won't plead guilty," he says...
...unless the federal government can formulate a system that is able to account for and overcome the problem of objectivity--and until the time that the demand for such courts becomes a real concern--Microsoft and other technology companies will have to learn how to plead their case within the confines of the current system. And if Microsoft couldn't win the case playing with the same rules as everybody else, perhaps they deserved to lose...
SCOTT PIERCE Born: 1930 As president of E.F. Hutton & Co., he had to plead guilty to check kiting on behalf of the company, which was fined $2 million in 1985. He also rounded up investors for W.'s oil concern...
...chosen for the elimination rounds, and just 30 will make it to the final show. But the deluge of applicants continues. "People have definitely become very, very aspirational," says Pradeep Guha, president of the Times group, who decides on the shortlist. "I have had parents come in and cry, plead, threaten and even exert political pressure to push their child...