Word: exploited
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...Bangladesh, and called it Asia's most dysfunctional country [April 12]. The situation in Pakistan is no different, and it is hard to anticipate where things are heading. Pakistan and Bangladesh suffer from a lack of genuine leadership. The objective of a ruling ?lite has always been to exploit a nation to the fullest for personal gain without concern for the people. Shabbir A. Harianawala Coventry, England...
...fashions, Louis Vuitton bags and a cluster of famous champagnes. He put his empire together over 20 years and often used hard-nosed tactics to get what he wanted. He may not have created LVMH's brands, but more than anyone, Arnault understood their worldwide potential and how to exploit...
...merchandisers, not élite architects, who would be the first to exploit the potential of prefab, though mostly in traditional styles--Tudor, Cape Cod, bungalow--that would have made Le Corbusier fall on his protractor. As early as 1906, the Aladdin Company was mailing out factory-made Readi-Cut house kits of precut, numbered pieces. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears Roebuck shipped out nearly 100,000 of its House by Mail kits. For a cost that varied between $650 and $2,500, the ambitious do-it-yourselfer received an avalanche of 30,000 pieces, including lumber, nails, shingles, windows, hardware...
Whether it’s because of the underperformance of a number of last summer’s sequels, or because the studios are now short on franchises to exploit, it looks like this summer’s crop of bad action films will feature slightly fewer movies with a “II” or “III” after their names. There are new installments of Spider-Man, Harry Potter, Shrek and The Bourne Identity on the way (not to mention Alien vs. Predator, which makes me wonder when Alien and Predator will face...
...meantime, we are still rather skeptical of any proposal to move Houses across the river. We worry that the impetus for this particular planning assumption is the enhancement of the Allston campus to the detriment of student life—a desire to exploit the liveliness of college students to enhance an otherwise undesirable locale. As the task force on undergraduate life in Allston approaches its final months before the members write their report, we hope they remain cognizant of students’ numerous concerns. Indeed, we doubt any Allston proposal will get much of a hearing from students without...