Word: exploitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defensive, a place he'd rather not linger. The next few weeks of budget summitry will require a tight focus and a strong stomach. The most immediate danger for Gingrich is that this extraordinary year will yield little concrete policy change--an outcome that Dole or Clinton could exploit in their presidential campaigns but one that could consign the Speaker to political limbo...
...Shachar's editorial, "Freedom to Limit Freedom" (Nov. 29), relies on a multitude of factual misrepresentations and dubious assertions in its advocacy of restrictions on freedom of speech. Ben-Shachar argues that voices that "exploit" free speech to argue against the predominant values of a "free" society should be silenced. Free speech, however, is not a means but an end in itself...
...movement expected until next week. The White House, for one, is still debating how best to exploit the Administration's growing advantage in the budget talks. The liberal camp, led by adviser George Stephanopoulos, feels that ending the year without a budget deal is the best way to highlight the President's stalwart positions in defense of Medicare, education and the environment. The opposite camp, led by moderate adviser Dick Morris, does not want to see Clinton campaign for re-election having blocked a congressional majority from passing a balanced budget. For Gingrich and his Republicans, however, entering the same...
...money means making more money is easier. If the rich pay the same rate as the poor, they are left with much more income in absolute terms. The poor simply cannot keep up as the rich outstrip them through investment schemes and tax advantages that the poor cannot possibly exploit. Rewards from a fast-moving economy fall solely to the wealthy. The classes move farther and farther apart, stretching our social conscience...
...short, Halevi was less an extremist than one of the early media militants who learned to exploit the press for publicity. His literary ambitions and his eventual decision to become a journalist suggest a more moderate man's need to examine experience in a cooler light. But his sharp skills as a journalist do not always serve him well as a memoirist. The emotional temperature drops steadily as Halevi writes about his disaffection with the JDL, his marriage to a woman with a Mayflower pedigree who converts to Judaism, the birth of his children, the death of his father...