Word: exploited
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Industry sources tell TIME that oil-service companies like Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and Halliburton as well as construction giant Bechtel Group could split contracts worth up to $2 billion for getting Iraq's oil infrastructure back in shape. U.S. and European oil conglomerates will scramble for rights to exploit Iraq's oil deposits. But the Europeans are worried that the U.S might see the postwar period as payback time for their governments' foot dragging...
...from Iraq, as a North Korean shipment was in the Indian Ocean last December. What are the chances the U.S. would allow that vessel to continue onward to Yemen?) Add to this North Korea's economic desperation?the country doesn't have the natural resources that Iraq can still exploit to somewhat mollify a collapsing standard of living?and it would seem that Pyongyang poses the more dangerous threat...
...people they suspect of soliciting for sex and hold them for up to 48 hours. If charged and found guilty, prostitutes face two months in prison and a j3,750 fine. Nicolas Sarkozy insists that his real targets are the pimps and gangs who organize prostitution, not those they exploit: "If prostitution is slavery, let's not allow pimps to display their merchandise in the street," he told the Assemblée last week. Foreign prostitutes will be deported. Those without papers who inform on their pimps will be given temporary residency permits. It's the massive influx of foreign...
...widely viewed as a straight shooter. Many assume she's simply lost her taste for the game-not least because so little has gone right since she took over. The Philippines, she said, is "now closer to the category of backward countries, wherein powerful, selfish interests are able to exploit poverty and ignorance." She also complained of a political atmosphere filled with "poison"-presumably a reference to fierce criticism of her husband and his alleged dealings with Congressman Mark Jimenez, who was extradited to the U.S. last month on fraud charges...
...time Watkins arrived, Enron was fast shedding its image as a staid natural-gas-pipeline company. Trading chief Jeffrey Skilling and his financial whiz, Andrew Fastow, wanted to build a nimble, "asset-light" firm that could exploit deregulating markets for energy, water, weather derivatives, broadband capacity and anything else that could be turned into a commodity. The strategy spawned explosive growth. By 2000, Enron was the seventh largest company in America. The '90s were fat times for Enron, and the corporate culture oozed in excess. The company rented ski condos in Beaver Creek, Colo., and stocked each with a personal...