Word: exploited
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...increase revenues, decrease spending, tax windfalls and ensure greater dividends are returned to her present constituents. So what if she has found only 2% of Alaska's budget to be pork? No one else was looking. In Palin, America just may have a Vice President who knows how to exploit the national government's bureaucracy and lawmakers in favour of her constituents, and such a change, it seems to me, would be about time. Peter Nortje, CAPE TOWN
...mistress. The Duchess Georgiana, played by Keira Knightley, consoles herself by taking a dashing young lover, flaunting the newest fashions, and schmaltzing her way to the top of London society. The real-life Georgiana Cavendish was a relative of Princess Diana, a fact the filmmakers make sure to exploit. However, linking the story to Diana of Wales will not make this 18th century romp any more successful, nor will it evoke any more sympathy for its wronged society beauty than it would for anyone else in her beautifully jeweled silk shoes. “The Duchess?...
...expanded faster than that of any other region over the past five years, averaging annual growth of almost 65%. Revenue generated by each of Africa's almost 300 million cell-phone users is three times higher than in Bangladesh, India or Pakistan. And users have been quick to exploit devices for commercial gain. Ghana-based TradeNet matches buyers and sellers of crops by circulating details via SMS of what each is offering to trade; many poor farmers in Tanzania rely on cell phones to gather real-time market prices for their goods. What's more, evidence of surging demand...
...court case and, now, as he enters a bank to try to cash a check, he finds it's been commandeered by robbers. The cops on the street figure Van Damme must have cracked and gone to the dark side, while the perps are only too happy both to exploit his fame and taunt him for being unable to overcome their guns with his kickboxing...
Media bias poses only one serious danger to McCain. One of Obama's standard tactics has been to predict that McCain would "play on our fears," "exploit our differences" and stir up "fake controversy" to win this fall. It's a clever move; it simultaneously paints McCain as a brute while making him think twice about hitting back--the harder McCain hits, after all, the more it will look as though he is stirring up fake controversy. Too many reporters have bought that spin, and that's a problem. McCain doesn't need reporters to fall out of love with...