Word: exploitatively
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...went there with the sole purpose of learning how to play polo," he explained. "They exploit your failings much better than the teams we usually play against. [Our mistakes] tend not to get noticed in most other matches...
...Nebraska Governor's race between Orr and Boosalis, both women are polite and well spoken, but, as Orr puts it, "this is no Bake-Off." The candidates tend to agree on contentious issues like abortion (both oppose it), but neither has hesitated to exploit the other's weak points. Boosalis has tried to tie Orr to the Reagan Administration's unpopular farm policies, while Orr has pounced on Boosalis' proposals for restructuring property taxes as "devastating" to senior citizens. Few Nebraska voters gender an issue. When Baptist Pastor Everett Sileven jumped into the Republican primary and argued that female leadership...
...mission is to help with fundraising, but we have absolutely no intention to exploit [the 350th]," says Reardon...
...response of many other taxpayers to the high rates was to clamor for relief through exemptions and deductions. Presidents and Congresses obliged, starting a seemingly endless spiral: every break that benefited one group created an alleged inequity that another group could exploit to win favors for itself. But as these goodies removed more and more income from taxation, rates had to be kept high on those luckless -- or politically impotent -- souls whose earnings did not qualify for special treatment...
...year ago, and taxes on luxury imports have been imposed. Such steps are not nearly enough. Mubarak's dilemma is that sterner measures, which might save Egypt from the embarrassment of defaulting on its foreign loans, could provoke a popular uprising that the fundamentalists are poised to exploit...