Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communists. That was too much even for other left-wingers in the S.P.D.: Benneter was fired from his post and ejected from the party. Meanwhile, Schmidt's F.D.P. coalition partners have been pressing the Chancellor for even more restraint in social policy and further tax cuts. To exploit these differences, the opposition has been courting the F.D.P., in hopes of breaking up the coalition and thereby forming a new Christian Democratic government with F.D.P. support. So far the F.D.P. has resisted, but as one Schmidt loyalist in the Bundestag puts it, "Those opportunists are just waiting to jump...
...quite nothing. Burly Christian Democratic Leader Helmut Kohl, who opposed Schmidt in last October's election, has proved to be an ineffectual performer in the Bundestag, unsure of his tactics, unable to exploit the government's mistakes and weaknesses. Kohl must also cope with the open contempt and sideline sniping of right-leaning Franz Josef Strauss, chief of the Bavarian-based Christian Social Union. Strauss believes that Kohl is too weak and not conservative enough. A number of Christian Democrats agree with the first of these charges, but they are unlikely to change leaders so soon after last...
...have paid with their lives for their dream of a better world. The people who made Avenue of the Americas and It's Raining in Santiago share that dream--a dream of a wealthy society in which all share in a country's wealth, where foreign capital does not exploit cheap labor, where children are no longer malnourished and no one is homeless. Both these films may be biased in favor of Allende, but it is hard not to be, given the nature of the junta and its supporters. And it is hard to leave the films without some faith...
...Here is a hero," Nietzsche wrote many years earlier, "who did nothing but shake the tree when the fruit was ripe. But just look at the tree he shook!" The significance of Lindbergh was as complicated as his personality. His exploit, proclaimed precisely because he achieved it alone, served to promote a new age of aviation technology in which men and women would be increasingly absorbed into teams, into bureaucracies. Lindbergh rode the Spirit of St. Louis on the updrafts of the future, but in many ways he was one of the last individualists. Even...
...Greek islands; the converted trawler was challenged by Greek destroyers and a battle was narrowly averted. Sismik1 was supposed to sail on another exploratory mission this month, but its departure has been postponed. Ironically, the oil at Thassos is not only of poor quality but is also expensive to exploit, and petroleum experts are skeptical about how much oil there really is. "They think it's Oklahoma out there," says an American engineer. "But it looks like a bummer...