Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desperately needs the extra revenue an advertising supplement can bring in. But I expected a newspaper like yours--one with intelligent writers and an unusually well-informed radical viewpoint--to come up with something more provocative. Not only don't you attack the sickening commercial aspects of Christmas, you exploit them...
...feeling that the advanced industrial nations exploit the Third World is stronger than ever and is remarkably adaptable to shifting circumstances in the world economy. In the winter of 1973-74, when OPEC was inflicting the maximum pain on the oil-consuming world, all the South American nations except Venezuela and Ecuador were also hurt. But they were full of heady visions of "other OPECs" that could force the rich North to pay much more for copper, bauxite, coffee, etc. Then the weakening of world demand knocked down raw materials prices; copper fell from...
While thus dispensing general guidance, Federated gives its divisions wide latitude to follow whatever merchandising strategies best cater to widely varying styles, tastes and incomes in each store's territory. In particular, Cincinnati headquarters has allowed Bloomingdale's full rein to exploit what it has long seen as its major market: young, affluent, fashion-conscious, traveled, professional people. They are attuned less to refrigerators and washing machines ("Bloomies" sells neither), more to clothes of fashion and quality, stereo equipment and wacky gadgetry for the compact Manhattan society of small apartments, crowded schedules and casual relationships. These consumers, to Bloomingdale...
Anna also learned to exploit his legendary jealousy to bind him closer to her. He went wild over the most innocuous attentions paid to her by other men. He regularly kissed the hands of other women upon being introduced to them, but if anyone did the same thing to Anna, he would become bitter for the rest of the evening, and sarcastically encourage her to return the attentions of her young admirer. Finally, she would berate him for being absurd and he would fall to his knees begging forgiveness for his suspicions...
Tonight however the Crimson will have the chance to exploit the Halloween spirit, and pull off a little rising from the dead action, as the footmen start the home stretch of their Ivy League campaign in a key encounter with Penn at the Quakers' Franklin Field...