Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniell Jr.: "It is something like trying to steal another dog's bone." Pulitzer-prizewinning Historian Barbara Tuchman (The Guns of August), whose daughter Jessica worked for McCarthy, fired off a telegram accusing Bobby of "cynicism and opportunism" and voicing "outrage" at "Kennedy's indecent rush to exploit another's efforts." One of the things that prompted Kennedy's belated decision to take on Johnson was the evidence that his "squealers and jumpers" were growing up and drifting away from him. Since 1964, at least 12.6 million Americans have reached voting age, and Bobby once laid...
Bravado dismissed, Schoenman explicates revolution. Phrases like "analysis" and "objective conditions" flow easily from his lips. "It's all quite simple," he explains patiently. United States "corporate capitalism" needs to exploit the raw materials of the underdeveloped world. "Soldiers only enforce the oppression--its basic agency is the world market," he says...
...inevitably touched off some fierce skirmishing, but both sides were, for the most part, waiting to see who would make the first major move. There were signs that, after almost six weeks of near-static defense in which General Giap has enjoyed all the initiative-and subsequently failed to exploit it-the move might well be made by the allies...
Seven oil-exploration contracts have been awarded to eager bidders, among them the U.S.'s Continental and Union Oil companies. Surveying for copper, Freeport Sulphur Co. recently found high-grade (4%) ore, and may invest up to $100 million to exploit it. International Nickel just got the go-ahead to start a $1,500,000 survey of nickel deposits on the island of Sulawesi (Celebes), and may invest $100 million. Bethlehem Steel has expressed interest in tin deposits, Boise Cascade in logging concessions. ITT agreed to build a satellite relay station near Djakarta at a cost...
...long as publishers keep hungering for bestsellers, it is not likely that the more aggressive agents will change their tactics. Says Sterling Lord, who runs a successful medium-sized agency: "The money is there. The great crime, if you control rights, is not to exploit them." So far, the authors are not complaining about exploitation...