Mr. Mitchell proposes that baseball establish a "department of investigations," but I fear that a more independent body is needed to placate player worries of owner interference.
The Illinois Democrat is doing his best to placate those worries.
To placate senators worried about the deterioration of America's nuclear arsenal, Mr Obama also promised to spend an extra $10 billion sprucing up America's remaining nukes over the next 10 years.
Obviously, Facebook was just showing people's first names to placate those worried about the privacy ramifications of such a wall.
Republicans attempted to placate conservative spending worries through a variety of votes, ranging from cuts to child tax credits for undocumented immigrants to reductions to the state Children's Health Insurance Program.
Vivendi's move was seen as an effort to placate credit agencies worried about its $15.4 billion debt.
To placate those who worry that this in turn would leave the government stuck with mountains of dud loans, a 10% capital cushion must be provided by investors to absorb initial losses.A fee of 0.1% would be charged on all mortgage-backed bonds, with the proceeds going to three funds, two pre-existing, that will provide subsidies for housing.
(A senior Sri Lankan diplomat dismisses the suggestion that the president is playing one suitor against another).Mr Sirisena also wants to placate Western countries, who worry about human-rights abuses, particularly against the northern Tamils.
The governor also spread the closings throughout the state, to districts represented by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers, fulfilling a promise he made during budget negotiations to placate Senate Republicans, who worried that their upstate districts would bear the brunt.
Who can be sure, but Microsoft may be attempting to placate some of those worried by the guidance by hastening its share buyback plan.
Every Eurovision Song Contest has to painstakingly refer not to "Macedonia" but to the "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" in order to placate Greece, which is worried that recognising the name would legitimate Macedonia's territorial claims over parts of Northern Greece, which is where there was an ancient kingdom also called Macedonia.
