Word: ployed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cover story ((THE WHITE HOUSE, March 21)) on the travails of Hillary Rodham Clinton unfair? At least 70 readers support her. "Why are you endorsing this witch-hunt?" asks Clara Beard of Los Angeles, who, like many, suspects the furor over Whitewater is "a ploy to divert attention from much needed health-care legislation." Others agree with Huguet Pameijer of Simsbury, Connecticut, who thinks "the current bash fest" stems from the perception that the First Lady is "too accomplished, too powerful, too darn inexcusably uppity." But some 50 readers have harsh words for Hillary. While the milder critics deem...
...sidelines as an immigration judge prepares his decision, due March 23. It will not be an easy one. Oluloro's arguments are part of a messy battle she is waging with her ex-husband over the girls' custody, and the request for asylum could simply be a legal ploy...
...Chinese have always bristled at Washington's threat of revoking MFN, but last week Beijing insisted more emphatically than before that it did not care . if the U.S. used trade as a weapon. Beijing contended that the entire human- rights argument was an unjust cultural ploy to put China on the defensive. Said a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry: "The Chinese government cares deeply about human rights. There are no saviors on the question of human rights. The Chinese people will save themselves." The Americans disagreed. "It's not a matter of talking about American values or Chinese values...
...artificial circularity created by this ploy is echoed by Benitez's laborious progress through all possible rites of passage--births, weddings, funerals, feasts--in an obvious attempt to show the circularity of life from death to rebirth, tragedy to hope, etc. Another grand theme of this novel is the attempt to use the sea as a link between the little village and the world at large, using the notion of the sea as a universal constant to extrapolate this story into a commentary on human Existence. To quote the blurb on the jacket of this book, Benitez is trying...
...full-timers worry that the reduction of thesecurity force to a staff of part-timers workingfull-time hours may be a ploy to take away theirjobs...