Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nations become increasingly linked to an international currency, and as they exploit their comparative advantages and trade comprises a larger share of their total product, they will become increasingly vulnerable to the kind of economic sanctions a central bank is capable of applying. The ability of a nation to long defy world opinion or conduct itself in a manner a majority of other nations think improper (the U.S. in Vietnam or South Africa and Southern Rhodesia within their border), would be significantly reduced...
...leaves Hubert Humphrey, of course. Because of the raw material he supplies a cartoonist, Oliphant would like to see him elected President: "It would give me four good years of fun." His last choice for President: Eugene McCarthy, whose patrician, well-chiseled face lacks a single exaggerated feature to exploit. "I'd rather draw him with a blank face," says Oliphant. "I'd hate four years with him; so would every cartoonist...
There were, of course, grandstanders who tried to exploit the situation with faked cries of pain. One youth, dropped gently to the grass by officers, lay quiet until they moved away, then shouted...
...Camelots. The Kennedy camp has sought to exploit Humphrey's new ties with the South. Ted Sorensen, one of Kennedy's top speechwriters and strategists, charged on a television panel show last week that Humphrey had already offered the vice-presidential nomination on his ticket "to every Southern Governor." When pressed as to his source, Sorensen insisted: "I know he has." Which governors in particular? "Right across the board." The idea of Humphrey putting Lester Maddox or Lurleen Wallace as close to the presidency as the proverbial heartbeat is, of course, bafflegab, and Sorensen himself later backed away...
Obinani blamed the present ghetto condition of Bedford-Stuyvesant on "anti-poverty landlords who exploit the ghetto" and professional planners with no social conscience." He added that the training of the 80 people, most of whom had no city planning experience, was preferable to the use of professional planners "who have been involved in making the situation in the ghetto what it is today...