Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only important criminal clan was Jack Dragna's family in Los Angeles. When Dragna's nephew Louis turned down a chance to become boss in 1974 ?he was promptly dubbed "the Reluctant Prince"?the Outfit and New York's Gambino clan made an extraordinary agreement to exploit the West together. Frank Bompensiero, consigliere (chief adviser) of the fading Dragna family, outlined the arrangement to the FBI before he was executed...
...recalled a witness to emphasize the man's inability to identify him; the witness suddenly changed his mind and decided he did indeed remember him. Some courtroom observers thought Gesualdo might have obtained at least a hung jury if he had retained a lawyer clever enough to exploit weaknesses in the evidence against him. But after deliberating 50 minutes, the jury found him guilty...
...million, Alaska also contains some of the country's richest and most extensive mineral deposits. As a result, it has become the center of a classic clash between environmentalists, who want to preserve some of its spectacular and environmentally unique sections for posterity, and developers, who want to exploit the potential riches...
...Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers: "There just aren't any jobs. I could cite plant after plant in the TV industry that is closing. It scares us. We're not against fair competition if it is fair. But... we're dealing with countries that exploit their workers and deal in dumping and so forth." Adds Red Smith of the Machinists' Union: "I remember I was told, 'Now, Red Smith, you vote for Jimmy Carter. He's one of us.' So I did. Now I want to see what's being done...
...DAWKINS, a young professor of animal behavior at Oxford, would actually write a book like this one, is a mystery, but it is easily solved. Dawkins probably decided he could cut the academic rhetoric, simplify his writing style to suit the layman, exploit an exciting new angle, and make a mint...