Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broad smile. Michael rocked in his chair at the defense table and turned to grin at his wife Rachel and sister Margaret. Father and son seemed to avoid eye contact. After they took turns pleading guilty to espionage charges, their attorneys successfully urged the judge to accept a plea- bargaining agreement they had made with the Justice Department...
...plea for a bailout puts the Administration in a difficult situation. Such action would violate Reagan's free-market philosophy and could open the door to other federal-aid requests. But farmers have plenty of political clout, and troubles in farm credit could spread to other parts of the financial system. In congressional testimony last week, Agriculture Under Secretary Frank Naylor stopped short of proposing, as some White House advisers have suggested to the President, that the Treasury extend a $3 billion line of credit to the FCS. Instead, Naylor said that the system should use the surplus funds...
...popular priest in a small rural community, Gauthe, 40, admitted having sodomized and otherwise abused at least 35 children entrusted to his care. Last week's sentencing followed a plea-bargaining arrangement involving all of % the parents, which was undertaken to spare Gauthe's victims the trauma of testifying. But the case is not over. The diocese of Lafayette and its insurers have paid $4.9 million to settle eleven civil suits filed by the families, and ten more are pending...
Because law prevents plea-bargaining, officials have problems persuading the accused to confess to crimes and reveal information about other police, military, and government officers, he said...
...about $40 a share. Nonetheless, its executives spurned the offer, thinking they could get even more for the company and fearing Unilever's reputation for trimming the management ranks of firms it acquires. Unilever upped its bid to $60 a share, but Richardson-Vicks still put out a plea for a "white knight" to make a friendly merger bid. Procter & Gamble, the Cincinnati-based detergent and disposable-diaper king, and Pfizer, a New York pharmaceutical firm, rode to the rescue with identical $69-a-share offers. P & G reportedly won the deal because its lawyers got the paperwork done faster...