Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a bad side to life in Amarcord: fascism and especially the Church, with its laughable confessionals and pathetic attempts at education. But the schoolchildren Fellini focuses on aren't warped or victimized by the Church--they exploit it, puncture it almost effortlessly, without retribution. Even the ordinary cruetly of children to other children (such as the very fat or the very small) never goes beyond the verbal stage. Sometimes, particularly in the opening scene of the bonfire with which the town welcomes the spring, there is a hint of menace, but these hints are always resolved into...
...Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, lists between 5,000 and 10,000 as the population of wolves in Alaska. The Government and all conservationists consider the wolf extremely vulnerable to human pressures (e.g., killing for fur). I do not believe that President Ford would purposely exploit a threatened species; however, the example he has set by accepting and wearing a coat made from wolf fur is extremely harmful to the remnant of the population of wolves in Alaska. We have requested that the President make a public statement denouncing the exploitation of wildlife for the sake...
...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...
...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...