Word: exploitationism
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DRUGS FOR YEN. Colombia's Cali drug cartel, seeking to beat out the rival Medellin cartel, has been recruiting U.S. traffickers willing to go on a long journey. Destination? Japan, a nation ripe for exploitation. Cocaine sells there for $85,000 a kilogram, in contrast to $17,000 in Miami...
I was well aware of the reputation that my home state--the only state wholly contained within Appalachia--has among the rest of the United States. West Virginia is beset by chronically high poverty and unemployment, corrupt and incompetent local political machines, geographic isolation and a long history of exploitation...
But the people of Fayette County vote over whelmingly Democratic. For to most local residents, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is still revered. In the coal fields of southwest West Virginia, the memories of gun battles between union organizers and company thugs, of disastrous mine accidents and unspeakable...
John Steinbeck was haunted by the almost biblical travail of the Dust Bowl farmers, uprooted from their homesteads by bank foreclosures, trekking by the tens of thousands to the promised land of California, only to face brute exploitation as field hands. After two failed novels, he finally got it right...
Untidiness in dress, speech and emotions is readily connected to human relationships. The problem with the casual sex so fashionable in films is not that it arouses lust but that it deadens feelings and annihilates privacy. The danger is not that sexual exploitation will create sex fiends but that it...