Word: exploitative
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...friendly and understandable) and everything that is left out (hatred, injustice, random suffering). It's best captured in the man-on-the-street interviews, some done by a sweetly obnoxious blue puppet named Clarence, some by children. (One adorable little girl asks Wall Street workers, "Who did you exploit today...
Many employers already pay minimum wage to illegal workers. Although some shifty employers may still exploit workers they can keep off the books, "I really don't think most serious corporations want that," says Jagdish Bhagwati, an economist at Columbia University. That's because, says John Gay, a lobbyist for the National Restaurant Association, "a steady supply of dependable labor is more important [than minimum wage] to employers trying to grow their business." Forecasts of labor shortages spook some employers; restaurants expect 15% job growth over 10 years, while the labor force is predicted to grow only...
...knife. Despite far subtler roles, Wendy Crewson and Peter Keleghan are equally cutting as a middle-aged, middle-class couple facing financial ruin. They act cool, but their words (and later their actions) are scalding. And Kevin Pollak, as a two-bit hustler named Michael who is trying to exploit the "special quality" of the pregnant waitress Loretta (Caroline Dhavernas), pulls off the acting feat of being disagreeable and lovable at the same time...
...rather than lowered, in order to avoid default. Times have changed, says the Bush administration, our country is at war. Indeed times have changed. But this war is being conducted in a manner that intentionally avoids asking most Americans to make a sacrifice. Instead, the administration has chosen to exploit America’s youth. We are, evidently, the only ones being asked to make sacrifices—both of our lives and from our pocketbooks. The measure raises the debt ceiling by more than the $781 billion required by the administration’s prime magician, Secretary of Treasury...
...game’s highest levels, for example, lefty hitters exploit the market’s overproduction of right-handed pitching talent. Lefty pitchers remain time-honored commodities...