Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan does have a tendency to speak glibly of defense matters. He has said that the U.S. should exploit its lead in technology to offset Soviet numerical superiority. No one could quarrel with that aim-indeed, it is a basic premise of U.S. strategy. But Reagan went on to suggest using the cruise missile to counter Soviet tanks. Still under development, the cruise missile is no battlefield weapon; armed with a nuclear or conventional warhead, it will be launched from aircraft or naval vessels against strategic targets up to 2,000 miles away...
Forgiving Heart. But more important than Carter's apologies for his careless words about preserving "ethnic purity" was the fact that none of his rivals knew how to exploit the issue that he had raised. In 1976 there is one quick way for a politician to trip up on the way to the White House: call upon the Government to use federal powers to get the minority groups out of the big city ghettos and into white neighborhoods...
...movie claims to protest such outright exploitation of women. Yet after this voyeuristic and sensationalized scene, there are others which exploit Chris McCormack's predicament in more subtle, teasing ways. The trial is fast and slick; the defense counsel makes his main point--that Stuart couldn't help being seduced by Chris's public eroticism--by asking the model how she manages to appear so provocative in her photographs. "Isn't it true that you think about things that will make you hot? Don't you have to imagine sexual acts to turn yourself on for these pictures?" he challenges...
...BECOME apparent that contemporary European capitalism derives a great deal of its vitality from the fact that economic and political conflicts take place within different borders. Developed countries must be able to exploit a politically disen-franchised sector of the labor force more intensely, and to export the economic and political costs of unemployment to underdeveloped countries, both of which migratory labor makes possible. Thus political stability and economic growth in the industrial centers of western Europe depend on the political divisions between countries within a continent which is at once economically integrated and unevenly developed...
...many like Vitelli, the number of consecutive meals of yogurt and salad reached nightmarish proportions, driving them off-campus, where they now live and cook native dishes to their hearts' content. There they are able to team up with friends of the same heritage to exploit the culinary skills they sharpened in the old country. Vitelli feels she is particularly fortunate because she and her compatriots share such a predilection for edibles. "When two or more Italians--be they men, women or children--get together, just as long as they're within 50 miles of a stove, the main topic...