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...house agent provocateur, seeking to move Nixon away from the moderate center. His mission, then as now, was to make conservatism the dominant strain of the Republican Party. Buchanan sought to capture George Wallace's constituency for the Republican Party. As early as 1970, he was advising Nixon to exploit the roiling economic anxieties of the middle class for political gain, the same voters to whom he is singing his siren song now. "We should aim our strategy primarily at disaffected Democrats, at blue-collar workers, and at working-class ethnics," Buchanan told Nixon, according to Nixon's 1978 memoir...
...offered Deep Blue short term advantages which weakened its overall position enough for him to force Deep Blue resignation on move 73 after five hours and forty five minutes of play. Kasparov claims that this tendency is a gap in the computer's programming which he was able to exploit. Four matches remain until the end of the series which has a prize...
...Yale's weaknesses that Harvard is looking to exploit is its goaltending. Yale's netminders average four and a half goals allowed per game. In contrast, Harvard senior Tripp Tracy is averaging less than three goals against per game...
...other natural ingredients that work with the vitamins to promote health. But whether this news will put an end to the beta-carotene craze remains to be seen. The studies showed no harm in taking lower doses (3 mg) of the supplement, and the vitamin industry was quick to exploit that opening, suggesting that taking beta carotene might still be beneficial for nonsmokers. Yet even die-hard pill takers have to agree that the safest and cheapest form of prevention is to do what mother said, and eat those vegetables...
...longer necessary for a book or movie to be targeted for whites to be a smash. The black audience alone can make it one. That could mean a further Balkanization of the mass-entertainment market, as the movie, book and music industries turn out new products designed to exploit each sufficiently lucrative ethnic niche. Says McMillan: "I told the executives at the studio, 'Watch and see after the holidays how many scripts you have on your desk about middle-class black people who go to the grocery store and live regular lives.' There are going to be a lot more...