Word: exploited
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...Indian Ocean should have thrived. It is blessed with rich agricultural lands, large mineral deposits and untapped reserves of natural gas and oil. But the Marxist-oriented government of President Samora Machel, who came to power in 1975 after the departure of the Portuguese, has had little opportunity to exploit these resources. In little more than a decade, everything that could have gone wrong in Mozambique has gone wrong...
...Commission chosen last year to take on Berlusconi. The recent slump in the E.U.'s popularity is bad news for Prodi, who enthusiastically pushed Italy into the euro zone during his time as Prime Minister. Since public opinion has soured on the European project, opponents would be able to exploit the perception that Europe is a failure, and use Prodi's europhile track record against him. "Prodi has already shown difficulty holding the coalition together," says one opposition source. "His big selling point has always been as a champion of Europe. And now that brand has been damaged." Prodi indicated...
...unfortunate that the industry used these findings to exploit women and not help them,” Jack E. Henningfield wrote with his colleagues at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...
...unfortunate that the industry used these findings to exploit women and not help them,” Jack E. Henningfield wrote with his colleagues at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...
...fantastically muddled “triple convergence.” First, around the year 2000, the ten flatteners “started to converge and work together,” increasing global access to networks of collaboration and competition and giving rise to new business practices that sought to exploit the change. Second, the “new playing field for doing business” converged with the business practices themselves. Third, the populations of China, India, and the former USSR, granted their economic liberation, “walked out on to the playing field” and, presumably, converged...