Word: exploitations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zagladin's response was revealing: "You sound just like your boss. Gromyko has no smell for the ideological side of things. He's just too pragmatic, and so are you. You Foreign Ministry people don't understand the power of Communist ideas in the world and the way to exploit them...
...Minutemen were able to exploit Harvard's inexperience, applying a full court press that broke down the Crimson attack...
...like Treasury Secretary Donald Regan (once a financier), Internal Revenue Commissioner Roscoe Egger (an accountant) and former Assistant Treasury Secretary John Chapoton (a lawyer), who in past incarnations tried to exploit tax loopholes and shelters for moneyed clients, have taken the case for Uncle Sam. They are now troubadours for the national purpose through tax reform, and they have captured the patriotic fervor of Ronald Reagan. One of the reasons that the President agreed to switch the portfolios of Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker was to get maximum horsepower behind his drive for tax reform...
...incident involving Deaver early on in the Administration. Deaver, it seems, contracted with a book publisher to attach his name to a diet book--a move that could eventually net him several hundred thousand dollars. Thus Deaver became, as Safire pointed out, the first White House official ever to exploit "his public position for substantial commercial gain while still in office...
...difficulty lies with whether abortion would be treated as first degree murder, and if so who would be prosecuted. The act that most old abortion statutes, by the author's own charge, criminalized the doctor, seems to answer that question. The mother, in-most cases, is so traumatized and exploited by the abortionist, and often by the fetus's father, that she is under enough mental duress to exculpate her from a large degree of the guilt, even under conventional insanity law. That is why the law must stop the abortion from happening in the first place...