Word: exploited
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...create a new "flying squad" of terrorist specialists based in Washington--but longtime field agents, like Rowley herself, are appalled by the plan. In their view, anything that shifts more power to the Hoover Building will only reinforce the culture of fear and indecision that the hijackers managed to exploit. Rowley wrote to Mueller, "Your plans for an FBI headquarters' 'super squad' simply fly in the face of an honest appraisal of the FBI's pre-September 11 failures...
...totals 135% of gdp, a ratio that last week prompted Moody's Investors Service to downgrade Japan's credit rating to a level on par with Latvia. The country faces a host of other structural problems that aren't being fixed?and aren't likely to be if leaders exploit the whiff of a recovery to justify continuing a pattern of do-nothing politics. "The ruling party could use this as an excuse to stall reform," says Katsuya Okada, a Democratic Party leader. Any improvement "is only cyclical," Okada carps, "it doesn't represent a full recovery...
...impact more U.S. aid might have. Bono walks up to a merchant selling psychedelic tie-died textiles and asks, "Have you ever heard of Jerry Garcia? " When O'Neill's microphone goes awry in Ghana's presidential palace, Bono rushes to adjust it. And the duo gleefully exploit their differences to attract even more attention. The trip was hardly a day old when Bono began taunting the Treasury secretary, a notorious neatnik, to play Oscar to his Felix. "We're the odd couple...
...smelled a scam, but Otsuka invested her family's savings of $125,000 after learning of G.O. Group's miraculous new product, Uniba-G Tea. Made of banaba leaf from the Philippines, Ogami touted the tea as a revolutionary cure for obesity and diabetes. He spared no expense to exploit its marketing potential, hiring Jean-Claude Van Damme to appear in the Uniba-G TV commercial, in which the action star chugs the tea and kickboxes punks. Though the ad aired only a handful of times, the endorsement of Ogami's "close personal friend" received prominent play in the promotional...
...realistic dialogue but in political diatribe. Take Wild Ginger's argument with her mother, in which she lambastes her father: "He was a spy. Spying was his job. He was sent by the Western imperialists. Helping China thrive was his disguise. It was false. Helping the Western imperialists to exploit China was the truth...