Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his inventiveness, Moss until recently was content to license his patents (he holds more than 30) to other manufacturers, who he feels sometimes did not exploit his ideas fully enough. As a result he opened Tent Works a year ago to manufacture his wares, has sold hundreds of tents, and is already expanding his production line...
...concentrating mainly on a new product that he calls Jasper Ware because it is almost as shiny as jasper. Wedgwood was the first to discover that clay containing barium compounds can be more highly polished than any other and can be beautifully colored by various metallic oxides. To exploit the classical revival started by the recent excavations in Pompeii, Wedgwood is embossing his Jasper Ware with bas-relief of Greek and Roman figures...
...financed because of the superior ability of such enterprises to secure credit. Where there is significant investment in productive facilities, it is rarely in those areas that would aid the underdeveloped country to develop autonomously; instead, capital is invested in labor-intensive industries through which the global corporation can exploit the low wage rate in the underdeveloped countries. Similarly, the technology they provide is that which no longer yields high profit rates in the developed countries, and hence cannot contribute to changing the dependent position of Third World economies. Consequently in the area most involved with global corporations during...
...Welch also stars, and it does not require a good deal of sophistication to determine which role is hers. In the movie she does not like to be called Jugs (Jennifer is her proper name), and the sympathies of the film makers are entirely with her, even as they exploit...
...weeks of desperate fighting following their D-day landing at Omaha Beach; of a heart attack; in Austin, Texas. A Virginia Military Institute graduate, Colonel Johns wrote The Clay Pigeons of Saint-Lõ, which was an account of his World War II experiences. Perhaps his best-known military exploit came at the beginning of the Berlin crisis in 1961, when he successfully led a reinforcement convoy into the barricaded city...