Word: pleaded
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...writers feel so wronged? W.G.A. members enjoyed a median income of $84,000 in 2000, so they can't plead poverty. But writers say their professional lives are short (finding TV work is tough after 40). They also feel they deserve to swim in studios' new revenue streams like foreign markets and the Internet. W.G.A. president (and ER executive producer) John Wells wants to increase old "bargain basement" residuals (the fees paid for subsequent use of a TV show or movie). And, arguing that it minimizes their contributions, movie writers are also asking studios to reduce the possessory ("a film...
...While some people plead “art for art’s sake,” your work has always had a political message...
...dullard's policy. The apology - one of the more creative forms of human insincerity - has a thousand inflections and subtle uses. It may, for example, be employed as a splendid instrument of reversal. Remember when Bill Clinton went through his apologizing phase? After a time, we wanted to plead with him to make up with Monica and resume the behavior for which he was begging forgiveness - anything to shut...
...Next week, an emergency E.U. delegation will arrive in Washington to plead with the administration to change its mind. How do they hope to persuade Bush that he's wrong...
...Europe is understandably furious, with Sweden - which currently holds the chair of the European Union - describing Bush's move as "appalling and provocative," and the EU vowing to send a top-level delegation to plead with Bush to reverse his decision. But the President is unlikely to be swayed by Scandinavian invective, or even by Europe's reasoned entreaties to take global warming more seriously, after essentially rejecting the same advice from his environment secretary, Christie Whitman. Bush made clear Thursday that he was willing to work with U.S. allies to address the question of global warming, but would...