Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Bywater had apparently failed to reckon with was the rising strength of economic nationalism in Malaysia and the growing disenchantment of Sime Darby shareholders-now mostly Malaysians-with the largely British management of the firm, which many local critics viewed as a sore reminder of colonial exploitation.
Gifts or financial arrangements with foreign countries have sometimes come under particular scrutiny, but Peterson says that as long as Harvard is not restricted, the benefits usually outweigh the drawbacks. He compares these grants with the situation a black student sometimes faces. "Shouldn't he take a fellowship to finance...
Perhaps more than any other people, Black Americans endorsed these principles of human rights. But for Black people, a fifth freedom was essential. Black pioneers and Black martyrs like Martin Luther King, Jr. lived an experience of which Roosevelt was incapable. They knew that as an African person, in European...
Gore Vidal has not been so angry since his famed TV screaming bout with William F. Buckley Jr. The movie that finished shooting last week in Rome, he says, is "easily one of the worst films ever made." But then Vidal qualifies his indictment. The film does have some distinction...
The gathering, titled "Conference on the International Situation, War & Revolution & the Tasks of the American People," included speeches and workshops protesting American foreign policy and capitalistic exploitation.