Word: exploited
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Brazil is still a country rich in resources. Since the mid-1970s, huge new deposits of iron, manganese, nickel, copper, bauxite and gold have been discovered deep in the Amazon basin. To exploit this mineral wealth, the Brazilians have launched a mammoth development scheme, called the Carajas Project, that includes dozens of mines, a 550-mile railroad and a giant dam on an arm of the Amazon, all to be completed by 1990. The cost will be staggering: $61 billion. But the eventual income from the project, estimated at $14.6 billion annually, may be worth the initial expense...
...appearing before the A.F.T., Reagan was trying to exploit a growing national concern about the need to improve public schools. He was also indicating a willingness to collaborate with the A.F.T., which represents 580,000 school employees, perhaps furthering a split in the teachers' union movement. Said the President: "I know that there's another pretty big education organization out there. But it has been my experience that dedication, open-mindedness and initiative count for as much as size. The A.F.T., like Avis, tries harder...
Reagan sought to exploit the differences between the unions in Los Angeles. Said he: "The A.F.T. wants to upgrade standards, including emphasis on testing both students and beginning teachers, changing curriculum to strengthen academic requirements and increasing homework assignments. So do I." He also attacked the N.E.A. for "brainwashing American schoolchildren...
Fearful that leftist radicals might try to exploit Honduras' domestic woes, Alvarez began to crack down on terrorists after the inauguration of Suazo in January 1982. The Argentine-trained Alvarez seemed to be adopting the same tactics the military junta in Buenos Aires used in its "dirty war" against leftist terrorists in the 1970s. According to human rights activists, 34 people have been murdered and an additional five have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. In April, paramilitary squads gunned down three trade-union leaders. Says Ramón Custodio López, a doctor who helped found the Honduran Commission...
...violated a person's human rights or the law. What I can guarantee is that there were no orders supporting this. I am a Christian. I have five children. I love them. I cannot disregard human rights. I do condemn human-rights organizations that are partial. They exploit the good will of a lot of people for their own aims...