Word: exploitatively
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...cause was so worthy that there could be no criticism, but the timing was something that only a President can exploit. Ted Kennedy, in a speech at Washington's Georgetown University, complained that the Carter Administration's proffered $7 million in aid was inadequate to prevent starvation in Cambodia. The White House, however, had already called in TV cameras for a statement that President Carter would deliver in person less than two hours after Kennedy spoke: the Administration had rounded up not $7 million but $69 million to avert famine in that Southeast...
Last week in New York, Connally turned his expansive approach to foreign trade. Government and business must be more aggressive, he said, and must send a new breed of technological "Yankee traders" to exploit rich Asian markets. Most notably, like Democratic Presidential Aspirant Jerry Brown, Connally advocated a North American common market. "This economic union would be a formidable trading bloc," he said. Here too there are problems. Mexico has already denounced the idea as little more than latter-day Yankee imperialism designed to capture Mexican oil. It is also, according to one prominent businessman, ''hideously complex...
...area to monitor North Korean military movements. U.S. diplomats in Peking and Moscow urged the Chinese and Soviets to use their influence to restrain North Korea. Washington also warned North Korea that the U.S. would "react strongly in accordance with its treaty obligations to any external attempt to exploit the situation...
Chester Arthur Kinsman is one of Bova's ideal astronauts. These are not the sterile, blandly patriotic robots projected by NASA flacks, but intensely human and necessarily flawed men--and women--who believe in what they are doing and possess enough independence to reject or exploit bureaucratic maneuvering that surrounds them. As Bova portrays it, the path into space--whether it be military, industrial or political--will be strewn with the carcasses of careers and programs that, regardless of merit, lose behind-the-scenes struggles of power and influence...
...being that I did not take her condescension personally. To be sure, I did not find in Indian history or in Indian conduct toward its own people or its neighbors a unique moral sensitivity. In my view, the moral pretensions of Indian leaders seemed to me perfectly attuned to exploit the guilt complexes of a liberal, slightly socialist West...