Word: pleads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...range nuclear arms in NATO's forward zones, something the U.S. categorically rejects on the ground that without them, conflicts might break out more easily. The Bonn government is so eager to overcome U.S. opposition to these talks that it has dispatched Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg to Washington to plead Germany's cause. The U.S. would rather Stoltenberg stayed home, since the Administration does not intend to change its mind...
...defense has to plead guilty as well, as three of the four UMass goals were shot from the free-throw position after Harvard fouls...
...billion last year. His downfall began three years ago, when arbitrager Ivan Boesky, collared on insider-trading charges, began singing to prosecutors about alleged stock-fraud schemes he carried out with Milken and Drexel. Last December Drexel struck a deal with prosecutors that called for the firm to plead guilty to six felony charges and pay $650 million in fines. Drexel also said it would withhold $200 million in compensation owed to Milken...
Government prosecutors have amply proved their ability to persuade white- collar offenders on Wall Street to confess and plead guilty, but can the Feds convict anybody in a court trial? In attempting to try an important case stemming from the Ivan Boesky stock-fraud scandal, the Government is striking out. Last week the criminal stock-manipulation case against GAF and its vice chairman, James Sherman, ended in a second mistrial. After six weeks of testimony and more than 90 hours of deliberations, Federal Judge Mary Johnson Lowe decided the jury was hopelessly deadlocked...
...seductive modus operandi since at least the fall of 1987. Garcia loaned Portell $8,700, which he returned in the form of bad checks. She claims she arranged a coke deal only because Portell promised to repay her with the proceeds from the sale. Last week she agreed to plead guilty to possession of coke...