Word: pled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protester who rushed toward former Contra leader Adolfo Calero, ending his speech at the Law School last fall, pled guilty in Cambridge District Court last Thursday to charges of disturbing a school and being a disorderly person...
...damage done by those setbacks. The study estimates that the previous jolts have cost the U.S. and its major trading partners a total of $1.2 trillion in lost eco nomic growth between 1974 and 1981. In addition, the increased prices have dou bled unemployment rates and nearly tri pled the pace of inflation. The shares of their gross national products that Western economies spend on energy have also tri pled. Writes Yergin: "Thus, an oil price rise of any given magnitude will now have a greater effect on the consuming nations than the first or second shock...
...great distinction between taking the First and Fifth Amendments before the House Un-American Activities Committee, finding the First preferable because it rejects the very right of the committee to ask its questions. Mrs. Trilling says that from reading Miss Hellman's book, it sounds as if she actually pled the First Amendment. In fact, what she did was offer to plead the First, Trilling says, and when the committee refused to accept it, pled the Fifth, while circulating press releases about her innovative attempt to plead the First. "When I used to say to people that she took...
...already been destroyed, and many critics protesting that the terms were too light. The doctors--no longer employed by the University--are appealing, and one juror held a bizarre news conference a few weeks after the verdict to recant her vote. One of the doctors, Hussain, has since pled innocent to two additional counts of rape...
...problems began, paradoxically, with a decision that was at first applauded. To avoid the unrest that had top pled his predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, in 1970, recently ousted Party Chief Edward Gierek embarked on a crash program to modernize Polish industry. The first results were impressive. From 1971 to 1975 industrial output soared 70%, and real wages rose at an annual average...