Word: exploitatively
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...surprising to find Harvard Student Agencies engaged in questionable commercial ventures which exploit their Harvard connection and the "motherhood" of student scholarships for personal financial gain. But for sheer effrontery and tackiness, it would be difficult to top their most recent excursion into entrepreneurial sleight-of-hand...
...strike in support of the nationalistic demands. The revolt convinced Tito that the republic's Communist leaders had lost control of the situation and that Yugoslav unity was endangered. He denounced the strike as "counterrevolutionary" and sharply criticized Croatian party leaders for allowing the separatist forces to exploit the republic's economic grievances. At a hastily convened conference of Croatian leaders, Tito declared that he had lost faith in their promises to work harder at controlling the separatists. "Criticism as a kind of confession, followed by sinning again, is not enough," he told them...
...Administration can easily exploit the sessions to promote a policy line or send vague hints to other capitals, while retaining the option to deny the whole thing later. Last week the Washington Post deliberately broke the unwritten rules for backgrounders and again called the whole practice into serious question...
...downplays and perverts their role. The first time the Wobblies cross Joe's path, they look like a travelling glee club. Later, as their identity becomes established, they are portrayed as weekend radicals, trouble-makers without purpose. And while Joe sits in prison, they scheme about how to exploit his situation. Bullshit. These unionists were men willing to die for their cause; many actually did. They had a plan of action and an ideology based on their own bitter experiences with the ruling class. The IWW fought hard for Hill's re-trial, and at a time when defense funds...
...agreement to limit strategic arms. The Soviets dearly want American high-technology goods, like computers and machine tools. Aside from natural gas and metals, however, they have little of compelling interest to offer American customers. Russian mining officials hope to entice American firms to help them exploit some of the huge Siberian copper deposits. But a joint venture-perhaps modeled after Fiat's partnership with Russia in the Togliatti auto plant-would require as much as $4 billion in American investment capital...