Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite these advantages, the nursling's survival prospect was never very high. The 1959 strike failed to shut down the city's existing dailies, the Journal and the Oregonian, thus denying the newcomer the opportunity to exploit a temporary news vacuum. Moreover, Portland readers seemed undisposed to support a union paper that tried so hard to avoid the union label that it packed as much punch as a Sunday supplement. Although the Oregonian and the Journal have together lost 79,000 in circulation since the strike, the tabloid Reporter could not even attract all those defectors. At death...
Show business folk with high incomes, oil operators, companies, and even churches have moved into the cattle business to exploit its tax advantages...
Even if changes in the rules gave new influence to men like Senator Clark, the ability to exploit this influence would suffer from the continuing growth of the Executive branch, from the growing demand by constituents that Congressmen act as their liaison with the Executive department, and from the increasing amounts of time and money that must be spent campaigning for re-election...
Some reviewers never stop hailing the "unobtrusive" camera, but "unobtrusive" shouldn't be confused with banal. Although it is filmed with a good sense of static composition, The Easy Life fails to exploit fully the possibilities for visual movement which could have complemented the thematic content. One gets tired of seeing what it's like to pass a car when sitting in the driver's seat...
...about my "callous lack of concern for the plight of the unloved illegitimate child and the unwed mother." These words are entirely out of his own mind or heart. Let me review the dialogue as it occurred. In my presentation, I quoted Alex Comfort's two commandments; "Do not exploit another's feelings, and do not cause an unwanted birth," I cautioned, however, that often middle-class people put off having children, or even compel abortions, for the most trivial or venal reasons, or mere convenience; they out themselves off from big experience. Dr. Blaine then chose as his principle...