Word: pleased
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Ford may be the most successful U.S. automaker at the moment, but Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca is not about to give up his standing as America's best- liked fender-side philosopher. His first book, 1984's Iacocca: An Autobiography, sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide. Iacocca's story...
The trial in Grahamstown lasted 78 days, and there were emotional pleas for mercy. But after finding two white policemen guilty of murdering a black man, Justice N.W. Zietsman last week did not hesitate to apply harsh punishment. The sentence: death by hanging. The condemned men, Warrant Officer Leon de...
The compassion he preached was not part of a cold political calculus designed to forge a winning electoral coalition. Though much of what Bobby did was carefully planned, his pleas for racial harmony and social justice -- delivered to conservative whites in Terre Haute, Ind., as well as to blacks in...
The union, on the other hand, has asked employees to sign and turn in a card declaring support for an election to decide the unionization question, with the rider that voting to hold an election is a "moral commitment" to voting to unionize. Then, does the author think that the...
This time there were no tears, no tortured confessions, no anguished pleas for forgiveness. As Jimmy Swaggart took the podium outside his World Ministry headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., last week, the Pentecostal preacher seemed serene. The 13-member executive presbytery of the Assemblies of God had just voted unanimously...