Word: exploited
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...Chinese Olympic football team in London in February, the club sponsors the Asian Football Confederation's Vision Asia project to develop grassroots leagues across China. Next summer, Chelsea will embark on its first-ever tour of China. Those preseason tours can be pure gold, giving sponsors the chance to exploit target markets. When Manchester United goes to Malaysia, Korea, Japan and China this summer, shirt sponsor AIG will be with the team every minute. That will go some way to repaying the $28 million a year the U.S. insurance behemoth agreed to pay to slap its logo on the club...
...labor for seven years. In 1619 the White Lion, a privateer, brought a new labor source--"20 and odd negroes" from Angola. Our original sin was not very original--Spain and Portugal had already brought 200,000 African slaves to the Americas--and the colony was slow to exploit the practice. Slaves did not outnumber indentured servants in Virginia until the 1670s. Once acquired, however, the habit of bondage would prove addicting--economic and social nicotine...
...Today we have a window of opportunity that I invite the world to explore and to exploit,” he said...
...issue," she told reporters after the Gere brouhaha exploded. "Actually, I think it is not even an issue. There are bigger issues like AIDS in our country, which no one seems to be interested in talking about." As politicians around the world know, though, it's always easier to exploit controversy than tackle the difficult stuff...
...like when people slow down in a car accident.”Balancing what she saw as a need for meaningful dialogue with sensitivity was one of her foremost concerns for “Saturday Night.”“You have to be careful not to exploit people’s stories,” Homaifar said. “It’s such a taboo issue that you’re representing, that it’s very easily sensationalized.”FROM DUKE TO HARVARDHarvard will be the second school to publish...