Word: exploitative
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...former associates visit him, some to deplore his condition, others to exploit him for gold or to ask for his help. Timon sends them all away and refuses to defend Athens against invasion. Alcibiades is Timon's only faithful friend, and in return Timon gives him gold. As the city falls, Timon dies in the woods, but the memory of his former self prompts the conqueror to spare Athens and reestablish peace...
...Americans to criticize Brazil? Isn't opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development a key issue in the presidential campaign? We might destroy one of the few natural habitats that we have left. We Americans can't point a finger at Brazil if we exploit our own natural preserves. ANNA LANIER Emporia, Kans...
...solved by the maxim "Films lie; video tells the truth." But few movies have spread their fibs or facts as clumsily as this one. There's not an emotionally plausible moment in the picture. If Berlinger thinks he's commenting on media sensation--and not trying to exploit it--then the joke...
...potential for Iran to exploit heightened regional passions to disguise involvement in anti-U.S. operations is ever-present. These trends were conveyed to both CENTCOM and Embassy Sanaa long before the decision to use Aden as a refueling port was made...
...things went terribly wrong. We can see hints of the impending disaster in some of the film's pre-Altamont footage: raging groupies attack Mick Jagger; backstage, suits furiously try to exploit the potential of the upcoming San Francisco concert at any expense (in one particularly chilling moment, one lawyer makes the ominous prediction, "It'll be like lemmings...