Word: exploited
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...It’s kind of choose your poison, because Corey’s a guy that can play either wide receiver position...and if you give him one-on-one coverage, we’re gonna exploit it,” Murphy said...
...should surely have testified before the properly constituted bipartisan 9/11 commission, where his claims would have been thoroughly investigated and tested, along with the testimony of 1,200 other witnesses. But rather than face such scrutiny, Moore appears to have chosen to use the powerful medium of film to exploit a gullible audience, possibly hoping that his assertions would be swallowed by a majority - at least for a time. The net result of his film could be the end of unity in the fight against terrorism. Was that, perhaps, Moore's intention? John A. Arkcoll Lilydale, Australia The Wrong Side...
...regulators may turn out to be the least of Vonage's challenges. AT&T launched its competing CallVantage service in March, Verizon rolled out VoiceWing in July, and Comcast and Time Warner Cable plan to have their offerings by the end of the year. These companies will seek to exploit Vonage's Achilles' heel. Because Vonage relies on the public Internet to route its calls, it cannot completely control traffic and its effect on call quality, says Lisa Pierce, an analyst at Forrester Research. AT&T, on the other hand, has its own network. Over time, she says, Vonage will...
When researchers found a way to bioengineer a version of the human hormone erythropoeitin (EPO), which acts as the body's trigger to create more red blood cells, it didn't take long for athletes with perfectly normal red-blood-cell counts to exploit the technology. French cyclists were caught using EPO in the 1998 Tour de France; Olympic officials began testing athletes at the Sydney Games...
...Harold Wankel to lead an intensified drive to nail kingpins, shut down heroin-production labs, eradicate poppy fields and persuade farmers to plant food crops. If the drug cartels aren't stopped, the U.S. fears, they could sow more chaos in Afghanistan--which al-Qaeda and the Taliban could exploit to wrest back power. Miwa Kato, a Kabul-based officer for the U.N.'s Office on Drugs and Crime, puts it this way: "The opium problem has the capacity to undo everything that's being done here to help the Afghans." Few outcomes would please America's enemies more. --With...