Word: exploitatively
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...year endorsing Nike sneakers, and to claim that this is more than the total annual payroll for the thousands of Indonesians who help make them. Nike shot back that those shoes are actually made in Taiwan by workers earning an average of $800 a month each. Does Nike exploit workers? "I'm not really aware of that," Jordan told TIME. "My job with Nike is to endorse the product. Their job is to be up on that...
...ordering a callous 17-day bombardment of Lebanon that killed as many as 200 civilians alienated many more Israeli-Arab voters than it earned him Jewish ones. Leah Rabin, wife of the Prime Minister slain by a right-wing extremist last November, criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic and endlessly repeated negative ads that yoked him fatally to the grisly suicide bombings; the ads were the handiwork of American political consultant Arthur Finkelstein, a reclusive strategist in New York politics who engineered similar attack...
PUCC sought a new paradigm for student government at Harvard. It called on the council to use its capacity to speak for the student body and exploit its unique relationship with the administration to advance a number of liberal political causes...
...these books will expose millions of people to some of paleoanthropology's most powerful ideas--albeit in an unreliable way--neither evokes in the slightest the intellectual challenge of a science that is central to the understanding of where we humans fit into nature. And neither even attempts to exploit the promising device of confronting human with almost human to explore the essence of our uniqueness as a species...
...Finance Minister, Foreign Minister and Prime Minister (also twice). To counter Peres' reputation for meekness on security issues, he is shown, as commander in chief, in the company of Israeli military officers. In its ads attacking Netanyahu, whom nearly all Israelis call by the nickname Bibi, Labor seeks to exploit the widespread perception of him as a glib, empty suit. One commercial features ordinary people, presumably Likud voters, commenting on Netanyahu; they say over and over again, "Bibi's good looking," and "Bibi speaks good English...