Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevent unionization is not less than appalling. Reports indicate that the Coop has hired a union-busting consultant, perhaps paying him as much as $1000 a day for his expertise in intimidating workers. The store's front office has released a barrage of anti-union propaganda, all designed to prey on the fears and latent conservatism of the workers. A series of letters from the management to the workers outlining its opinions on the effect of voting in the union's favor contain no outright lies. Instead, they highly exaggerate the negative effects that unionization possibly entails and present...
...verbal intricacies that are his trademark fall prey to melodic ineptitude. Syllables lost in an overly complicated soprano line and choral numbers that have the gentility of a shouting match leave us frustrated. Though nearly always glittering, certain lyrics seem gratuitous as Hugh Wheeler's book parcels out plot in neat bits of dialogue. With such a story-laden vehicle, tangential songs become tiresome; we yearn for songs with more plot in them. Sondheim and Wheeler sensed this tendency for Sweeney to drag and judiciously chopped out half of an appallingly dull number in moving the show from New York...
...ships refused to help them, or Asian governments denied them haven. For 384,000 surviving boat people, there seemed to be no better prospect than interminable months in fetid "holding centers" in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Even today, the bobbing skiffs that still flee Viet Nam are prey to ruthless Thai pirates who rape the women and plunder the refugees' belongings - in one documented case, even the gold fillings from their teeth...
Where do lawyers get off sneering at the competence of laymen? Lawyers' competence is too often reserved for wheeling, dealing and flimflam rather than law and justice. People should not be merely fair game for the legal profession to prey...
...sputtering economies of less-developed countries. To combat what he calls this "Latin Americization" of the United States, he proposes concerted political efforts to both stimulate world-wide demand for American products and national consensus for greater efficiency and equity at home. Although he doesn't fall prey to the chauvinism that taints much current political discussion, Muller's proposals for dealing with the rest of the world are no less than imperialsitic. Falling back on one of the few unqualified successes of American post-war policy, the Marshall Plan, he suggests a global analogue that would spur industrial development...