Word: exploitative
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...Vagina Monologues is written to exploit the guiding principle that the ability to laugh at something, or even just say it out loud, can blunt the edge of the controversial and allow us to confront the unspeakable. Thus, hearing other women’s experiences can, if nothing else, help us to think about our own. In fact, as a woman, it is hard to not to identify with and reflect on two skits (“Hair” and “My Angry Vagina”) that pointedly discuss the unnatural aesthetic standards by which...
...necessity of war against Iraq. His U.N. tenure may soon seem like a picnic compared with his next assignment. In part owing to the White House's reservations about making drastic changes, the bill establishing the DNI was written with more than enough ambiguity for Rumsfeld and Goss to exploit if they so choose. For instance, the White House resisted giving the new intelligence czar so-called tasking authority over the CIA director, according to one expert, meaning that in practice, Negroponte can't, say, order up CIA action...
...upon phone companies' being able to provide businesses and households with a broad slate of communications and entertainment offerings, including Internet-based calling and even cable-TV-style video services. NTT may be big and rich, but the company "is not used to thinking competitively and reacting quickly" to exploit new business opportunities, says Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Hitoshi Hayakawa...
Back to its normal home schedule this weekend, Harvard should be well rested for both games, and will look to exploit a tired Cornell team, which plays at Dartmouth Friday night, right out of the gate...
...Generally, it takes a little time to figure out what an opponent is going to give you and to start to exploit their weaknesses,” Stone said...