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Ingenious Americans exploit numbered Swiss accounts in innumerable ways. Here are three that particularly disturb U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau...
...this tense milieu that the Arabs' "men of sacrifice" operate, in a defiant effort to exploit its instabilities to their own ends. The fedayeen, who owe no fealty to any government, are responsible only to themselves, and view any settlement as a betrayal and a disaster. They possess the power to sting Israel into repeated reprisals, and perhaps to whip Arab popular opinion to such a pitch that not even Nasser with all his prestige might dare a settlement with Israel. In Jordan, their primary staging area, they constitute virtually a state-within-a-state and could probably topple...
Speaking with a thick Swedish accent, Myrdal said that Asian attitudes and institutions are the biggest drawbacks to progress. Asian states are "soft," he said, "in that they demand so little of their citizens." He added that "the laws are full of loopholes that the vested interests can exploit and so corruption has been increasing...
...Brian saw an opening and ran 20 yards for a first down, but the play was nullified by a penalty. Before play resumed, the freshman coach Harry Jacunski asked Dowling why he had run and Brian responded, "I saw something in their defense I knew I could exploit." Faced now with fourth and 26, Brian ran again, for 35 yards. Mortified, the coach asked him the $64,000 question again. "Well, coach. I saw the same thing again," Brian answered...
...STRAIGHTSHOOTER. Black extremists are using the shortcomings of our society and the frustrations of the ghetto to exploit hate and teach violence