Word: exploited
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Exports: Cocoa, timber, diamonds. Per capita income: $220. U.S. aid (1961): $22,600,000. Soviet aid: $196 million. Grows one-third of world's cocoa, but ran $100 million trade deficit in 1961. Volta Project (U.S. loans: $133 million) will enable Ghana to exploit rich bauxite deposits...
...were hurtling through empty space. But last week, a team of Columbia University physicists did the improbable: using 5,000 tons of battleship armor along with the most powerful atom cracker yet built, they found another variety of neutrino. Around the world, great laboratories are already planning experiments to exploit the tiny new window opening on the unknown...
Some of the Pretender's backers want El Rey to get tough and exploit the ferment in Spain with a rousing declaration to speed Franco's end. Some Spaniards even say that he should go back and live on Spanish soil. Don Juan refuses. "Couldn't . . . It'd raise problems . . . I'd be accused of meddling in politics," he mutters. He can only steer the lonely and precarious course of not publicly antagonizing Franco and yet suggesting to the waiting Spanish people how he feels about the regime that in 1945 he called...
...questioning all the privileges and restrictions the Radcliffe community had taken for granted. What was the point of a Harvard education for a girl? Should it prepare her for motherhood, graduate school or a career? How closely should Radcliffe follow the Harvard model? In what ways might the College exploit its unique situation? And, ultimately, what could and should a woman do with a liberal arts education...
...mawkishly does the cornball song, with its vaguely Kurt Weillish tune, exploit the pathos of divided Berlin that the Voice of America has refused to play it, and West German record firms are "apprehensive" about releasing it. Hollywood Songwriter Wayne Shanklin maintains that the record was inspired by a news picture of Bobby Kennedy looking at the barrier. ''The Wall offends the dignity of the human being," he straightfaces. "I want to shape the world a little. I can't fight with a gun, so I have to use the only weapons at my command...