Word: pleas
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...Even after receiving this impassioned plea, Ifill did not ask any direct questions about schools during Thursday's vice-presidential debate. However, when she asked about budget priorities, Joe Biden vowed the Democratic ticket would not scale back its $18 billion education-spending plan, despite the $700 billion federal economic bailout Congress was working feverishly to pass. "We won't slow up on education because that's the engine that's going to give us the economic growth and competitiveness we need," Biden said. Sarah Palin, for her part, called for state standards to be raised as well as funding...
Somerville resident Sean Driscoll arrived in court from custody and entered a not-guilty plea...
...Kiribati’s president, Anote Tong, delivered a stirring plea to a packed audience at the Science Center yesterday in which he urged audience members to focus their attention on the already salient repercussions that rising sea levels have on inhabitants of island countries...
Each year I write an impassioned plea to a plethora of mailing lists exhorting Harvard undergraduates to consider cross-registration at MIT. I explain the simplicity and ease of cross-registration. I argue that the commute is trivial and that there are exciting courses in all manner of disciplines. But without fail, year after year, students decline to make the commitment, except for accounting...
...instead of his home address. And the natural-born promoter also directs PayPal users to route the money using his e-mail address, MStephenson@AccessHybrid.org. "In case you're interested, I have plans to use my college education to improve our environment," he notes toward the end of his tuition plea, which explains that AccessHybrid is an organization he set up to help college and vocational students buy fuel-efficient cars. "I found the work incrediably [sic] satisfying," he adds in what would have been a pitch-perfect letter, had he bothered to run a spell-check. (To see the evolution...