Word: exploitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dispute to disappear. "Anything that raises the abortion issue's profile," says an adviser, "is a problem for us." With Congress poised to pass an abortion-rights bill called the Freedom of Choice Act, that profile will remain high. The vulnerability, which Bill Clinton tried to exploit last week and which also could help Ross Perot, springs from the issue's new political math. When Roe v. Wade seemed to guarantee access to abortion, the pro-life side mustered most of the electoral passion. Though a minority in the country for decades, those adamantly opposed to abortion tended to base...
...that would promote logging. In fact, there is no linkage, and the loan has been tabled because Congo is behind on paying debts. Opponents have also contended that plans for building a road and improving the navigability of the Ndoki River will open the area to those who would exploit it. The feared road, however, is only a Wildlife Conservation International project to improve marginally a dirt path for moving supplies, and the proposal to clear vegetation from the river is simply a WCI plan to remove some fallen trees so that a pirogue can travel between research camps...
...dredge up my first-year memories of other people's miseries and failures. Like the best reality-based television show, I too can exploit the pain of my fellow students--portray their suffering in chilling accuracy and technicolor...
...appearing on The Arsenio Hall Show last week, Bill Clinton may have discovered the formula to revive his stalled campaign: exploit his sax appeal. During the brief rehearsal for the talk show, the visiting saxophone player joked nervously with the band, "If I screw up, play louder." Clinton need not have worried. So what if his wraparound shades were borrowed from an aide, the phosphorescent blue-and-yellow tie came from the show's wardrobe department, and some of the cool was donated by the adoring host? The image that came across on TV was that of a relaxed, self...
Much of the debate in presummit meetings centered on the issue of who owns and controls the genetic information stored in those species. Traditionally, the benefits that come from genetic materials -- seeds, specimens or drugs derived from plants and animals -- go to whoever finds a way to exploit them. Vanilla, for example, was a biological resource found only in Central America. It later became an important cash crop in Madagascar. Now a U.S. biotech company has developed a process to clone the vanilla flavor in a cell culture. If the firm sells the bioengineered version for less than natural vanilla...