Word: employable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Institutes of Health agreed. Indeed, the NIH believes so strongly in the value of placebo surgeries that it has begun rejecting experiments from university researchers that do not employ them. Today placebo trials are being mounted for a variety of procedures, from knee surgery to the treatment of pain in cancer...
...endures so much pain that even the most cold-hearted viewer breaks down and begs for Gibson's forgiveness at the mere thought of not loving the movie. It seems that greedy little Mel wants it all, the dough and the doo-doo to boot. Whereas some actors employ pathos and ethos to panhandle Oscar gold, Gibson aims straight for the gut, which goes to show that even metal buckles at a de-entrailed man's blood-curdling cry for freedom...
...English writer Doris Langley Moore, is proof--if any were needed--that the man-catching strategy expounded by the 1996 best seller The Rules was old hat, and dumbed down at that. Written as a Socratic dialogue between wise Cypria and eager Saccharissa, Moore's handbook advises women to employ all the usual tricks: let the man make the moves, let him imagine he is smarter--and remember that, as Saccharissa says wistfully, "the thing which is against my own inclination is always the correct thing to do." Running footnotes and quips from Jane Austen and others (added to this...
...When in doubt, perform. This rationale has led some professors to employ theatrical techniques to stimulate the audience. "I do give a good lecture. I like to tell a good historical tale," says Mendelsohn. "Sure, the material could be magnificent, but if I were dull, they wouldn't come...
Opponents of hate laws employ a simplistic and misleading argument: "All crimes are hate crimes," says Gov. Gary E. Johnson, the Republican governor of New Mexico, who has promised to veto any hate crime legislation that comes before him. No one would dispute his statement. But crimes based on hatred of an individual are different from crimes based on hatred of a whole part of our nation...