Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York magazine, McDermott--who had a role in developing such hit shows as Friends--sought to get out of her NBC contract by charging sexual harassment against the network's top West Coast executive, Don Ohlmeyer. McDermott's charges have been seen by some as a cynical ploy to free her for the ABC job. Insiders say Jack Welch, chairman of NBC's parent, General Electric, even contacted Eisner personally to complain about ABC's role in the episode...
...their ploy doesn't work...
...released it. Having seen Netscape capture 70% of the market for Web browsers by giving its software away, Sun decided to use the same, "profitless" approach, issuing one low-key press release and letting word of mouth on the Internet do the rest. It was a familiar ploy for Sun's Joy, who helped foster the growth of the Internet itself in the early 1980s by shipping free Internet Protocol software with every Sun computer. Says he: "We knew that if we put Java on the net, it would find the leaks and flow everywhere...
Last week, some graduate students commented that their ploy to withhold grades would hurt Yale's integrity. On the contrary--Yale would have lost far more integrity if it gave in to the anti-academic tactics of a pseudo-labor organization. And having to assign irregularly calculated grades or incompletes to hundreds of transcripts, even for a short while, could only have hurt the prospects of Yale's undergraduate students. We will always feel solidarity with them, not with GESO...
GESO's most recent ploy--the withholding of their undergraduate students' grades--is a destructive move that can't possibly help their cause. We are sure that Yale will not give in to this pressure, since its officials need only to mark down incompletes for this semester. Underclass students can wait to complete their transcripts, and even seniors applying to graduate schools don't need their fall semester grades until February...