Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, détente finally paid off in the Middle East. The Russians had seemed ready to exploit every anti-U.S. opportunity in the area and, in particular, massively armed Syria. But after the Yom Kippur War, they played second fiddle to Kissinger's spectacular effort for peace and saw their own influence decline. The changed U.S. attitude toward the Arabs, from blind backing of Israel to what Nixon had described as a more evenhanded policy, was among the most important of all of Nixon's foreign policy accomplishments...
Nixon had scarcely returned to Washington from a 16-day stay at San Clemente before a search was on in the White House for a new strategy for survival. Until the Judiciary Committee vote, Nixon and his aides had attempted to exploit partisan divisions on the panel. Ziegler went so far as to disparage its proceedings as a "kangaroo court." That strategy was shattered, however, by the defection of six Republicans in support of one article of impeachment, seven in support of another, the introduction of a third by a senior Republican. Now a new course had to be found...
...rush to exploit new or neglected energy sources is transforming the ranching economy of the whole Rocky Mountain region. In Montana, a $700 million electric generating complex is being built to convert local coal into power for the Pacific Northwest. In Colorado, a consortium of twelve companies is experimenting with ways to tap the oil and gas held in the state's vast shale deposits. In Utah, the leasing of shale lands has pumped $120 million into the state's coffers. But it is in Wyoming, where the antelope still play beside highways, that the changes are most...
...L.D.P. veterans to the other vacant posts: Toshio Kimura, 65, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kichizo Hosoda, 62, to Hori's old job. From now on, however, the abrasive, aggressive Tanaka will have to tread much more tenderly. Fukuda and his allies will be waiting to exploit any false step...
...maritime era gives an unfair advantage to developed nations in a technological era. Continuation of the status quo, Delegate Makhold Lerotholi of Lesotho protested in Caracas last week, would "mean continuation of a colonial mentality of the most cynical nature." If the developed nations were allowed to exploit the seas at will, he said, they would go on to lay claim to the moon, the stars and the planets...