Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan drive had lost its momentum-all added to a spreading feeling that the long campaign was rapidly building to a turning point. The week was full of ironies: Reagan did well barnstorming the country, but it was Carter who ended up with the best chance to exploit. Aside from the possibility of the return of the hostages-the "October surprise" that the Republicans have been dreading-Carter has been yearning for a head-to-head debate with Reagan and a chance to overcome the Governor's lead with a single incisive performance...
...though Fusco continued to run the option successfully for most of the first half--a weakness future Crimson opponents are sure to attempt to exploit--Harvard hung tough on this muddy day, the third straight week when the defense nailed down a Harvard victory...
Despite its increasing isolation from the Catholic populace that once welcomed its activities, the I.R.A. is still able to exploit one cause that wins sympathy even from those who do not condone its violent methods: the notorious H-blocks (the term comes from the cell-block configuration) of Ulster's Maze Prison. I.R.A. convicts in the H-blocks have long protested a 1976 ruling that reduced the status of new inmates from something akin to prisoners of war to that of ordinary criminals. The "dirty protesters," as they have been called, refuse to wash, wear blankets instead of inmates...
...Reagan, he sought to exploit Carter's absence from the League of Women Voters' debate by launching an ad blitz on Sunday and Monday. The setting was an empty podium. A woman's voice said: "Maybe he won't debate because he knows the real question is, 'Can we afford four more years of this...
Antonis Schetakis, mayor of Kisamos, explains this exercise in church democracy by force: "At a time when, instead of trying to solve our social problems, the church is only worried about the blind support of old and uneducated women and how to exploit its vast property, Eirinaios is a hope and a symbol for the future." At week's end the Patriarchate and bishops of Crete worked out a plan to shuffle episcopal assignments so the see of Kisamos eventually can be opened for Eirinaios' return. But street mobs were demanding that he be restored immediately...