The Exide Corporation, the world's largest maker of car batteries, said today that federal prosecutors, who have been examining its business relationship with Sears, Roebuck & Company, were likely to seek a criminal indictment of the battery company or else demand a plea bargain involving a large fine.
It was a challenge and a demand, not a plea.
It seems appropriate that the first words you hear in "Once Every Day," a fascinating thicket of images, sounds and ideas from the formidable avant-garde playwright and director Richard Foreman, are "Help me!" The words are emphatically delivered, more a demand than a plea, by an off-screen woman and dropped repeatedly into the movie's visual and aural slipstream.
Rathbun refused to take any plea bargain, demanding a jury trial and creating a media disaster for the district attorney.
Two of the people noted that prosecutors were more likely to seek a deferred prosecution agreement than to demand a guilty plea.
All three activists pleaded not guilty and rejected plea deals, demanding a trial.
It was a demand but also a plea, perhaps, that these things not be lost or forgotten when, a few hours later, she slipped away in her favourite armchair.
More ominous is the possibility that the Justice Department will demand guilty pleas from banks.
It wasn't a demand so much as a plea for coherence.
Where do we go?" Maureen's voice cuts in then, elemental, chilling, and it's not a question she's posing, not a statement or demand, but a plea: "What's wrong with her?" Another click, but this one is just for show, and the eyes never move from the screen.
On Change.org, another petition is making many of the same pleas, demanding that Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the U.S. Department of Justice take over the investigation.
