Word: exploitatively
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...Reagan drive had lost its momentum-all added to a spreading feeling that the long campaign was rapidly building to a turning point. The week was full of ironies: Reagan did well barnstorming the country, but it was Carter who ended up with the best chance to exploit. Aside from the possibility of the return of the hostages-the "October surprise" that the Republicans have been dreading-Carter has been yearning for a head-to-head debate with Reagan and a chance to overcome the Governor's lead with a single incisive performance...
...attrition along the Shatt al Arab was overshadowed last week by the diplomatic efforts to end the fighting?and by political maneuvers to exploit it. Like the fighting, the diplomacy and the politics could have consequences for the entire Middle East and perhaps for the world. Throughout history, war has often resulted in the reordering of international relations, and it has often been true that the longer and bloodier the war, the more divisive the political aftermath...
...though Fusco continued to run the option successfully for most of the first half--a weakness future Crimson opponents are sure to attempt to exploit--Harvard hung tough on this muddy day, the third straight week when the defense nailed down a Harvard victory...
Despite its increasing isolation from the Catholic populace that once welcomed its activities, the I.R.A. is still able to exploit one cause that wins sympathy even from those who do not condone its violent methods: the notorious H-blocks (the term comes from the cell-block configuration) of Ulster's Maze Prison. I.R.A. convicts in the H-blocks have long protested a 1976 ruling that reduced the status of new inmates from something akin to prisoners of war to that of ordinary criminals. The "dirty protesters," as they have been called, refuse to wash, wear blankets instead of inmates...
...Reagan, he sought to exploit Carter's absence from the League of Women Voters' debate by launching an ad blitz on Sunday and Monday. The setting was an empty podium. A woman's voice said: "Maybe he won't debate because he knows the real question is, 'Can we afford four more years of this...