Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consumers residing elsewhere will remain deprived of their rights. Moreover, in most large but legitimate consumer class actions, courts eagerly manufacture other grounds to deny justice even if the plaintiffs come up with the cash to notify all class members. Until Congress passes new legislation, corporations will continue to exploit their judicially granted advantages...
...this non-communication, this ability to exploit the community with a poker face, that the Wilson report attacked. Sensing the anxiety that boiled in residents as they were led from the old Office of Civic and Government Relations to the Planning Office to the Real Estate Office, whenever they wanted simple answers concerning the wrecking machines about to rip into their houses, the Wilson report recommended that a vice president for external affairs be appointed to establish community policy and answer directly to neighborhood queries. Wilson points out today that this suggestion was later incorporated...
Many of Angleton's covert operations after he joined the CIA remain secret. The only people who know what he really did are his superiors and those who worked with him. One exploit that can be told came early hi 1956. In collaboration with a friendly intelligence service, his unit acquired a copy of Nikita Khrushchev's famed denunciation of Stalin to the 20th Party Congress. Angleton and his lieutenants also developed the evidence that helped lead the FBI in 1957 to the KGB agent Colonel Rudolf Abel, who had operated since 1948 from an obscure photographer...
...acquiring technology-we in Latin America and particularly Mexico are confronted with a dilemma. We either open up to the economic investments, life-style and psychological attitudes, all for the economic development of the U.S.-in which case we are favoring a process of colonization-or we try to exploit our natural resources and seek alliances in our own self-interest...
Many colleges, he said, "exploit women by hiring them part-time," excluding them from the fringe benefits received by full-time professors. "Harvard is clean there, we don't do that," he added...