Word: exploited
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...football team. Their air force is destroyed, they have few heavy weapons, and, says Ali Ahmad Jalali, a former colonel in the Afghan army, they are so undisciplined that in past battles, "they have rushed to the front line to share the glory and spoils." The U.S. Army would exploit snafus like that in a flash...
...entire production is benefited by the strong direction of Spiro Vilidous (also the artistic director of Lyric Stage), who knows he’s working in a wonderful space and does everything possible to exploit it. Scenes are well framed, transitions are quick and central themes are highlighted by staging which never lags or feels unnecessarily cluttered...
...Northern Alliance, helped by the U.S., takes the city of Mazari al-Sharif this week, that will be plenty. They don't need to rush to Kabul when no alternative government is ready. Plainly there are schisms within the Taliban, and the U.S. is also trying to exploit those. If you're going to create a stable government, you have to put together a group that has the credibility to govern. And that may include elements that have been part of the Taliban...
...growing. The Asian economic meltdown has traumatized those societies and has fueled deep nationalist resentments of the United States. In Indonesia, it also ushered in a period of volatile political power struggles and secessionist and inter-communal violence. That has created an atmosphere fertile for the Islamists to exploit skepticism over U.S. intentions in the war on terrorism. Although they represent no more than 12 percent of the Muslim population, Indonesia's radical Islamists are actively recruiting young men for training for jihad. President Megawati Sukarnoputri has plenty of political enemies among the mainstream Muslim parties that tried to keep...
When Mexico's largest flourmaker, Maseca, wanted to exploit the government's recent deregulation of the tortilla industry, its delivery fleet needed instant access to warehouse data. Houston-based Compaq, which sent its new iPAQ pocket PC service south of the border this year, nailed a deal to put its handheld wireless devices in hundreds of Maseca drivers' pockets...