Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy companies at last will begin drilling for oil and gas off the Northeast Coast by early summer. The oilmen won a hard-fought victory last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, by refusing to hear an appeal of a lower-court decision, signaled a go-ahead to exploit acreage near the Baltimore Canyon, which lies 50 to 90 miles off Atlantic City, N.J. The most optimistic geologists estimate that this tract contains up to 1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. That would be equal to all the oil and gas now drilled...
...South Africa's black majority, apartheid is a system of laws imposed arbitrarily by whites, and it is designed to crush blacks in spirit as well as to exploit their labor. In the end, the play suggests, apartheid manages to make the people who suffer under it as brutal as the laws themselves; by making every normal human need criminal, apartheid has created its own criminals...
...concern of commentators, some of whom began to draw grim parallels with the violence and political unrest that prevailed in Italy before the Fascist takeover in 1922. "Today, again, we have a determined minority waiting in the wings to exploit the first turbulence in our political, economic or social equilibrium," said Rome University Historian Rosario Romeo. "And if this were to happen, I would not vouch that civil strife could be avoided." However, others pointed out that in 1922 Italy was in a state of political anarchy, while the present government crisis, for all the chaos, is an example...
...legend in Dallas is that Cowboy Owner Clint Murchison bought a computer company solely to complement and exploit his coach's style. Whatever the case, one of the electronic brains was soon harnessed to answer a difficult question: Which young men could play successfully under Landry's byzantine flex defense and multiple offense? At Cowboy headquarters, part of the basement and a full wall upstairs are lined with 1,500 big black ledgers that detail the size, speed, strength and character of every professional football prospect known to man, God and the truly all-seeing and all-knowing: the Cowboys...
...reason seems clear: the Brazilian government wants to turn the Indians into fully integrated Portuguese-speaking Brazilians as fast as possible, so that it will not be hampered by them in its attempts to exploit remote mineral deposits and open the country to land developers. It is thus opposed to anyone-and that includes S.I.L. personnel-who contributes to "keeping the Indians in their natural state." S.I.L. officers and many Brazilian linguists deny the charge, in part because S.I.L. teams, once they make a tribe literate in its own language, customarily proceed to teach the tribesmen Portuguese as well...