Word: exploitatively
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...feeling that the advanced industrial nations exploit the Third World is stronger than ever and is remarkably adaptable to shifting circumstances in the world economy. In the winter of 1973-74, when OPEC was inflicting the maximum pain on the oil-consuming world, all the South American nations except Venezuela and Ecuador were also hurt. But they were full of heady visions of "other OPECs" that could force the rich North to pay much more for copper, bauxite, coffee, etc. Then the weakening of world demand knocked down raw materials prices; copper fell from...
Anna also learned to exploit his legendary jealousy to bind him closer to her. He went wild over the most innocuous attentions paid to her by other men. He regularly kissed the hands of other women upon being introduced to them, but if anyone did the same thing to Anna, he would become bitter for the rest of the evening, and sarcastically encourage her to return the attentions of her young admirer. Finally, she would berate him for being absurd and he would fall to his knees begging forgiveness for his suspicions...
Tonight however the Crimson will have the chance to exploit the Halloween spirit, and pull off a little rising from the dead action, as the footmen start the home stretch of their Ivy League campaign in a key encounter with Penn at the Quakers' Franklin Field...
Inside the hall, Greenberg also said the busing issue is a "diversion" from the real class issues. She said, "they need people they can exploit," explaining that "they" are the "power structure...
...believe that the policy we are carrying out with the Soviet Union has put us in the best position to resist Soviet pressures and in the best position to exploit possibilities of positive developments in Soviet policies. Now, however, the debate gets carried on as if we are giving away things to the Soviet Union. Where has the Soviet Union made a unilateral gain...