Word: exploitativeness
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...Mattison, a member of the city-appointed Harvard Allston Task Force, says he feels as though it is a vulnerability that the University has been trying to exploit...
...hallmarks of Musharraf?s reign has been the wholesale liberation of Pakistan?s electronic media. Over the past five years media deregulation has meant that dozens of independent TV stations have exploded on the scene, ready and all too willing to exploit the slightest misdemeanor of those in power. Musharraf has already felt the bite of this newly unleashed press: Exhaustive coverage of his attempts to dismiss a popular Supreme Court justice contributed significantly to his plunge in popularity...
...today's Russia, is booming, with the domestic box office growing from $25 million in 2000 to, by some estimates, nearly $600 million last year. Whether making movies for the Russian market or shooting on location for an international audience, Hollywood studios and talent are getting involved, keen to exploit local knowledge while helping to revive a system that once produced some of the world's finest films by directors such as Sergei Eisenstein and Andrei Tarkovsky. Soviet cinema collapsed when state funding disappeared at the close of the communist period. A great bulk of filmmakers migrated to advertising...
Stengel's national-service plan would butcher the very Republic he seeks to preserve. His proposal would require funding and create organizations for any number of corrupt officials to exploit. Such a plan would also obliterate the spirit of volunteerism, whose very nature and definition mean participation without incentives--monetary or otherwise. Americans do need to band together for the betterment of our delicate Republic' but amplifying the government's already expansive role and excessive expenditures is no answer...
...former Socialist President Fran?ois Mitterrand, to head an elite panel on ways to unshackle the economy. Attali's appointment continues Sarkozy's habit of "opening" government to leading figures from the opposition. "When you get down to it, maybe be I'm the person who knows how to exploit the talents of the Socialist Party best," he said sardonically. "They have very good people, and ones they hardly use at all. Maybe during another incarnation I was a director of human resources...