"Congressman Allen is the candidate in this race who three months ago set a standard for positive communications pleas from third parties.
In a recent paper, Boffetta et al. [Boffetta P, McLaughlin JK, LaVecchia C, Tarone RE, Lipworth L, Blot WJ. False-positive results in cancer epidemiology: a plea for epistemological modesty. J Natl Cancer Inst 100 988 995 (2008)] argued that "epidemiology is particularly prone to the generation of false-positive results".
I remember being struck early on in the speech by Obama's plea for bipartisanship, by how positive and articulate he was, by the way he moved his audience.
When the 2006 Tour de France winner, Floyd Landis, was stripped of his crown for testing positive for a banned substance, Mr. Jackson posted a plea to get drugs out of sports.
Bury director David Manchester said he had been "encouraged" by the initial response to the plea for money and they had held "positive discussions" with some parties.
Inside the magazine, an interview with Mr. Ban contains an impassioned plea to move Africa away from bad news toward positive thinking.
Five weeks after the news that Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell had both been banned for positive drugs tests on the same day, it was an impassioned plea that clearly came from the heart.
But on the positive side, for a few days, the whole nation learned about the pleas of the small Rutgers campus in Camden, New Jersey.
Vick, 27, tested positive for marijuana in September while he was on supervised release after his guilty plea.
In 1986, prior to his guilty plea, Boesky had given an infamous speech at the University of California extolling the positive aspects of greed, stating that he thought greed was healthy.
