Word: exploited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feel guilty or timid about applying anything I've suggested. The stereo industry, through differentiation of product, is trying to exploit your ignorance about electronic equipment. No dealer is ever selling an item below cost and it's your right to get the lowest price...
...Minuteman whittled at the Harvard margin by working the ball inside to exploit Banks's absence. Lou Silver responded to the UMass charge by pouring in 14 first-half points and the half was deadlocked...
...promised not to raise taxes at the same time that she pledged to expand social welfare programs. But Grasso campaigned largely against a highly unpopular utility rate increase. Once she had disclosed that consumers had been overcharged $19 million in one year because of a miscalculation and began to exploit that fact, Steele did not have a chance...
...masculine terms from the state constitution (it passed). Connecticut voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment barring sex discrimination identical to the as yet unratified national Equal Rights Amendment. In Colorado environmentalists pushed through a measure requiring voter approval for any future nuclear detonations that might be set off to exploit the state's rich energy reserves. In Massachusetts 24 towns voted on whether or not complete amnesty should be granted to draft dodgers and deserters. The tally: only eight towns approved, but the overall count gave the measure, an expression of local opinion with no force...
...this atmosphere, becoming an official in the East St. Louis school district, the largest employer in town, represents an opportunity to exploit rather than serve. Candidates are known to spend as much as $10,000 campaigning for an unsalaried seat on the seven-member school board-and a chance to control both patronage and the $32 million school budget...