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...ordering Donald Regan, then Secretary of the Treasury, to prepare recommendations that would be released after the election. That directive was widely derided as a transparent ploy, but it worked, thanks partly to some unwitting assistance from Democratic Nominee Walter Mondale. Bradley and Gephardt had visited Mondale to plead that he adopt tax reform as a major issue, but the nominee declined, preferring to plump for a tax increase that turned out to be about as popular as, well, a tax increase...
...Popes who rebuilt the entire church. They reached their apogee of power when Gregory VII marched northward in 1077 to depose the disobedient German King Henry IV by sheer willpower. His march was halted only when the humbled King knelt for three days in the snow at Canossa to plead for the Pope's forgiveness...
Sometimes his own unrelieved sense of logic gives him trouble. Cuomo is exhilarated by the power of government but dismayed by its necessary politics. "I have to plead, cajole, rationalize, justify," he wrote out of exasperation last month in the diary. "I don't want that." He is only partly amused that on occasion he receives high praise for routine decisions and sometimes little acknowledgment for politically courageous ones...
Last week's rebuff was merely a "lost battle in a war we're going to win," declared White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. "We will never give up," vowed the President as he posed for photographers with three contra leaders who had flown to Washington to plead with legislators on Capitol Hill. He held up a button that read IF YOU LIKE CUBA, YOU'LL LOVE NICARAGUA...
...spokesman for the USDA said that the agency's suit was filed primarily to force Columbia to comply with recently revised animal welfare laws. He said that the USDA expects that the school will plead guilty once the case reaches court...