Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Instead, the group has merely been a catalyst, if a particularly jarring one, for economic changes that were bound to come. Petroleum prices have been going up because worldwide demand for oil has been increasing relentlessly while supplies have fallen. The cartel's policies have been designed to exploit the opportunity and earn a higher profit from petroleum sales...
...spurting price of oil has prompted both scientists and backyard tinkerers to try tapping alternative forms of energy, ranging from sun power to geyser power. Not waiting for these exotic energies to arrive, Brazil is making an all-out effort to exploit a quite ordinary, but until now underused, power source: alcohol distilled mainly from its bumper crops of sugar cane. Already, 230,000 of the automobiles moving along Brazil's roads are powered by pure alcohol instead of gasoline. By 1982, Brazil hopes to have produced at least 1 million alcomobiles. Except for a few minor engine alterations...
...Carter's most pressing problems, ones that could not wait for the change in Administrations, were matters of foreign policy. Both Carter and Reagan are deeply concerned about the hazards of "lameduck diplomacy"-that nations abroad might try to exploit the long transition between Administrations on the assumption that Washington would be too distracted and irresolute to respond...
...early signs are not encouraging. Towns across the Rockies are suffering from what Psychologist Eldean V. Kohrs has called the "Gillette syndrome," named after a once bucolic ranching town in northeastern Wyoming. As oil and coal developers moved in to exploit what lay underneath Gillette, the town ballooned from a population of 3,580 people in 1960 to 12,125 in 1975. House trailers crowded in among the billboards and ramshackle storefronts, water supplies dwindled, the schools bulged with students. Crime, alcoholism and violence were commonplace. The town officials were simply unprepared to cope with the ugly side...
NCPAC has never disguised its over-the-shoulder technique. "We exploit the past records of incumbents," says Dolan, "showing that they have not responded to their constituents' needs and desires." Preparing for the execution in Idaho, Dolan said last year, "By 1980, there will be people voting against Church, without remembering...