To the Editor: I applaud Thomas Leo Ogren's plea to reduce pollen in our cities, but his solutions require a fair amount of botanical knowledge.
Last month, a report on juvenile lifers published by the American Civil Liberty Union of Michigan documented the degree to which prosecutors' personal biases may influence which juveniles plea to reduce charges.
Walker talks to a range of interviewees including Mikhail Gorbachev and Tony Blair – who appears to rediscover his leftist youth with a plea to reduce nuclear weapons to zero – and argues that the threat of a nuclear explosion has never gone away, but could be closer to coming true now than at any other time.
There is worldwide plea to reduce carbon dioxide emission.
Brushing aside signs of plunging business confidence and stagnating growth across Europe, the European Central Bank once again rebuffed widespread pleas today to reduce interest rates and stimulate the economy.
A suspect who pleads not guilty may wait weeks, months or even a year for trial, as police and prosecutors offer plea deals to reduce a sentence.
Esparza, who is married and has a four-year-old daughter, was led away in handcuffs from a court hearing on Thursday, her bail revoked, after rejecting a plea deal to reduce the charge from murder to voluntary manslaughter.
Behind US pleas for Japan and China to reduce tensions lie fears that an accident or miscalculation could quickly escalate into armed conflict.
The NAO says that Clarke's sentencing reform programme, which included sentence discounts of up to 50% for early guilty pleas, was designed to reduce the size of the prison population by 6,000 by 2015.
Milburn said commission research found that key professions including the law, the media, medicine and fashion had rejected pleas by politicians to reduce the number of entrants working for free.
