Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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O'Neill concedes that such conceptions are "very rich in future shock" and larger than anything yet attempted in space or even planned on the drawing boards of space scientists. But he is firmly convinced that they could be achieved with technology that is either already available or almost...
Mockery in Arms by James Aldridge (Little, Brown; $7.95) is the only book of the lot that succeeds as a novel and not simply as a page turner. The author is fascinated by the wild, squabbling, Kurdish people of Iran, Iraq and Turkey, and their struggle for independence. A discovery...
He tried without success to weaken Wyoming's proposed air pollution law with variances he believed necessary to the "economic and social development of the state." He suggested that oil and gas wells should not be covered by a law prohibiting discharge of waste into navigable streams. He supported industrial...
Whatever reasons the U.S. may have had for entering Viet Nam, commercial exploitation was hardly among them. Although the American business community in Saigon has grown roughly 20% since the 1973 Paris accords, to about 230 members, the total U.S. investment in Nguyen Van Thieu's crumbling nation still...
As citizens of the richest and most powerful country on the face of the earth, we have a special obligation. Not only must we act to help those in need, but also we must act to ensure that the nation we are citizens of does not continue to use its...