Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small Republican Party and a perennial Cassandra of Italian politics, argued that only full Communist "co-responsibility" could provide the consensus necessary to cope with the country's grave problems. Besides, he reasoned, if the Communists were to return to opposition, they would be in a position to exploit labor and student disaffection and perhaps win the next election...
Harsh penalties should be imposed on those who exploit the young for sex. If the kids can make thousands of dollars for their pimps, it's time society took those dollars away from the pimps...
...connect with the political reality of West Germany, which may partly explain their bitterness. The West German system-capitalism infused with touches of social democracy-has been so successful in gaining its citizens' support that extremists of either left or right have found little social unrest to exploit. Says Irving Fetscher, a political scientist at the University of Frankfurt: "Those students who did try to win over the workers generally failed, and then they turned violent. Either you reshape your view of reality, or you try to punish reality for not conforming to your theories...
From a cynical perspective Saturday Night Fever looks not so much like a movie as a merchandising assault on the youth market. The first film to exploit the latest disco craze, it stars a hot TV personality, John Travolta, and features a sound track overcrowded with highly pluggable Bee Gees songs. The sets are plastered with posters of Al Pacino and Farrah Fawcett-Majors; the script shamelessly ransacks American Graffiti and Rocky. The people behind Saturday Night Fever -or perhaps one should say the accountants-have not left much to chance...
...current defense budget is disproportionately large and the defense department is trying to exploit all technology, even down to the frisbee, to make weapons, Gavin said. Somebody has to say "no" he concluded...