Word: exploitatively
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...greatest danger facing Yugoslavia, the experts agreed, is that the Soviets will either exploit the tensions among Yugoslavia's various republics, or encourage Bulgaria to provoke a border dispute with Yugoslavia and intervene in support of their ally...
Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government and an expert on Soviet foreign policy, said recently the Soviets will not exploit the tensions between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia unless specifically asked to do so by the Yugoslavian Communist Party...
...biggest spender of them all. He even talked like Johnson. His indictment, trial and acquittal in the milk-fund case that grew out of Watergate remained damaging. His toughness, his slickness, made him seem the wheeler-dealer. And rather than run away from that image, he tried to exploit it. Says Campaign Strategist Henry Edward ("Eddie") Mahe: "That perception was so deep, we couldn't have changed it. We had no choice...
...unpredictabilities of the world have supplied Jimmy Carter with a kind of spontaneous American sense of national community. He has not hesitated to exploit the mood in his campaign for reelection. That is perhaps human and inevitable, but also dangerous. The politician who exploits patriotism for political gain, even if he is President, risks discrediting both himself and, more sadly, a love of country that has only recently begun recovering the self-confidence to show itself in public again...
...grandeur; Carter seduced the national press ("lights at the White House burned into the night") as effectively as he did the voters of Iowa. Carter appreciates how wide his support has become, but not how thin it remains. By going for the jugular, he hoped to capitalize and exploit the popularity he has gained by not going off the deep end over the past four months, which in these times passes for a substantial accomplishment. Yet when so minor an achievement can inspire the dramatic turnabout of political fortunes witnessed since Iran--Kennedy's two-to-one lead now reversed...