41.   Cabinet members pleaded their case in a joint appearance while the president was in Texas.

42.   Come on, Ted, do I have to plead your case for Bush as well as hear it?

43.   Drayton McLane, Astros owner and head of the group that operates the dome for Harris County, assembled the media at midfield yesterday to plead his case.

44.   Each of them pleaded the case with Clinton to take a softer line, to offer an explicit apology, to soft-pedal his remarks on Starr.

45.   Every special interest in medicine converged on Washington to plead its case.

46.   First, he said, the ruling was issued without any warning to Business Week, thereby failing to let the magazine plead its case.

47.   French President Jacques Chirac vigorously pleaded the case for including Romania and Slovenia to President Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other leaders Tuesday morning.

48.   For that reason, lobbyists urge their clients to plead their cases face to face with congressmen.

49.   He asked for a supervisor and pleaded his case.

50.   Gray, sounding more like the attorney he plays, pleads his case.