Word: exploitativeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City, president of the National Council on Compulsive Gambling: "The state approved drinking but it doesn't promote it. Yet the state is promoting, advocating and pushing risk-taking behavior like gambling." Some critics complained that in using games of chance to raise revenue, states mainly exploit poorer people, whose tight financial straits tempt them to give in to dreams of hitting it big. Said Sociologist Eric Hirsch of Columbia University: "It's the American dream to get rich quickly, but the lottery holds up false hope for people. Nobody who has any real understanding of the number...
...from Revolutionary times, Commencement has also been a forum for serious debate, epitomized first by the "Thesis and Question" and more recently by the featured speech. As Samuel Eliot Morison shows in his Three Centuries of Harvard, speakers invariably chose to exploit their moment in Harvard's unique spotlight by addressing one of the burning issues...
...that the true-life scenario, which reached its climax last week, is too corny to make a movie; nothing is too corny to make a movie. It is rather that the good part is yet to come. A 13-part mini-series might be a more appropriate format to exploit what promises to be one of Hollywood's most interesting sagas, the very real corporate marriage of two of the most flamboyant businessmen in the world...
...reassessment of the Soviet Union's relations abroad. Calendar age does not necessarily equate with political outlook, nor is new necessarily better. Said one State Department official: "Gorbachev's energy will vitalize his office, so the possibility of progress is greater. But at the same time his ability to exploit our vulnerabilities is greater." President Reagan offered his own assessment of the Soviet leader who might eventually face him at the summit table: "I do not think that there is any evidence that he is less dominated by their system and their philosophy than any of the others...
Moreover, U.S. foreign policy. Chomsky charged in his 90 minute speech, aims to maintain Third World weakness so America can dominate and exploit...