Word: ployes
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...think that was just a marketing ploy early on. This show is a good show for MTV, because they're trying to do some new kinds of programming. I'm also developing other things that would probably be better for other networks. I think I reached a point about a year ago where the routine, the cadence of the life of a writer, was getting to me a little bit--by which I mean a book every two years or so, going underground and working alone in this unnaturally solitary way, poking your head out in the sunlight and going...
...Democrats hope people will also focus on Starr's de facto messenger in Congress, House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Attacking Gingrich is a standard Democratic ploy, but in the Lewinsky affair it had been hard to do as long as Gingrich stayed behind the curtain, venturing forth only to make high-minded statements about the need for civility at a moment of this historic magnitude. But on Wednesday he went before the microphones--without Judiciary committee chairman Henry Hyde--and trampled all over the idea of a censure deal that would pre-empt impeachment proceedings. He also ruminated in a closed...
Berwick agrees that mass mailings--like monthlycatalogs from J. Crew--can be a hassle, but sayshe gets around the problem with a traditionalHarvard Yard Mail Center (HYMC) ploy--stockpileson mailroom tables...
Some constitutional scholars argue that Clinton's more frivolous privilege claims injured the presidency, because Supreme Court rejection of the claims narrowed the circle of confidants any President can count on. But whatever the merits of the ploy, it is to Nixonian abuse as the Berkshires are to the Rockies...
...itself the Real IRA. But why would they plant a bomb in a mostly Catholic town? And was the most horrific part of the atrocity -- that a misleading telephone warning led people to be standing right at the spot where the explosion took place -- a mistake, or a murderous ploy? Nobody knows...