Word: exploitatively
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...impact more U.S. aid might have. Bono walks up to a merchant selling psychedelic tie-died textiles and asks, "Have you ever heard of Jerry Garcia? " When O'Neill's microphone goes awry in Ghana's presidential palace, Bono rushes to adjust it. And the duo gleefully exploit their differences to attract even more attention. The trip was hardly a day old when Bono began taunting the Treasury secretary, a notorious neatnik, to play Oscar to his Felix. "We're the odd couple...
...smelled a scam, but Otsuka invested her family's savings of $125,000 after learning of G.O. Group's miraculous new product, Uniba-G Tea. Made of banaba leaf from the Philippines, Ogami touted the tea as a revolutionary cure for obesity and diabetes. He spared no expense to exploit its marketing potential, hiring Jean-Claude Van Damme to appear in the Uniba-G TV commercial, in which the action star chugs the tea and kickboxes punks. Though the ad aired only a handful of times, the endorsement of Ogami's "close personal friend" received prominent play in the promotional...
...realistic dialogue but in political diatribe. Take Wild Ginger's argument with her mother, in which she lambastes her father: "He was a spy. Spying was his job. He was sent by the Western imperialists. Helping China thrive was his disguise. It was false. Helping the Western imperialists to exploit China was the truth...
Meanwhile, Saddam is working hard to undercut international support for a U.S. attack on him by deploying his diplomatic weapons. He has found a rich issue to exploit in the Palestinian crisis and has made it a constant theme. His offer of $25,000 to the family of every suicide bomber and every Palestinian family made homeless by the Israeli assault last month on a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin has won wide admiration at home and in the larger Arab world. He is showing muscle in the oil market with his 30-day moratorium...
...charities and government agencies raced to distribute billions of dollars in assistance to families and businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, it was inevitable that some undeserving tricksters would exploit the system. The Manhattan district attorney's office has thus far charged 76 people with fraudulently seeking aid and taking part in other schemes related to 9/11 assistance. But sources tell TIME the post-9/11 fraud isn't limited to just phony victims. A former worker at one of the disaster-assistance centers in Manhattan says some employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the New York...