Word: exploitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just a coincidence that mention of Chinese unmentionables is popping up now? Probably not. The suit bears the hallmarks of a well-timed legal offensive designed to exploit the growing controversy over renewal of China's most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status, which lowers U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. President Clinton supports the measure, but opponents, who include religious and human-rights activists as well as industries fearful of low-cost Chinese competition, plan to make Beijing's alleged transgressions their Exhibit A. Referring to the ballooning $40 billion U.S. trade deficit with China, Gary Bauer, head of the right...
...constructed, nor did it call anyone who placed McVeigh at the crime scene. Several people, though, have made statements to the FBI that they saw a man resembling John Doe No. 2 with McVeigh in the days before the bombing. So Jones does have an opening. But can he exploit it in a contest with a prosecution that has operated as smoothly and powerfully as Deep Blue...
...most successful businesses are the ones that can read the new economy and exploit its moods. There are fortunes to be made, for instance, by recognizing the potential of fish as furniture. Fish have become a perfect pet for the 1990s, where no one's around much but everyone wants his house to be all the homier anyway. So aquarium sales are through the roof. That is good news at Petland, a Chillicothe-based company whose success is nurtured as much by the weaknesses of America's two-income economy as by its strengths. Thirty years ago, Ed Kunzelman...
Jones can also exploit the prosecution's failure to present witnesses who put McVeigh at the scene. Jones can simply say his client wasn't there. He can also ridicule the prosecution for its inability to present any witnesses who saw McVeigh and Nichols constructing the bomb, which would have involved hauling around two tons of fertilizer. This remains a hole in the prosecutors' story. They have dropped some witnesses who would have testified on the matter, and somehow, they will have to convince the jury that McVeigh and Nichols were so surreptitious they escaped detection...
...Chinese will prosper financially and spend their money in the more civilized world outside. But the haves in China will continue to exploit the labor market that they created and that the U.S. hypocritically subsidizes. CARLOS A. SANCHEZ Miami...