81.   Now, with time running out before the vote, Smith and Harkin are buttonholing their colleagues and pleading their case in simple and familiar terms.

82.   Orsino sends the disguised Viola to plead his case.

83.   Recently he had dinner with Bochco to plead his case.

84.   Prospective players were often forced to navigate virtual game rooms to plead their case, in text chat, to be chosen for a game.

85.   Richardson pleaded his case on three network morning shows Tuesday.

86.   Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison went before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week to plead the case for tougher federal laws against stalking.

87.   Schwartz wanted to plead the case that his company was at risk of losing millions of dollars if Clinton did not act expeditiously.

88.   Since the IRS was making ominous threats, she drove to the bank to plead her case.

89.   Simply hiring a lobbyist to plead your case is no longer enough, said Lynn W. Zempel, the spokeswoman for the coalition backing the securities legislation.

90.   She also found time to plead her case face to face with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco.