Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were told to improve air quality; the automakers had to launch a $1 billion program to clean up auto exhausts. When the Arab oil embargo hit, lobbyists for the auto, oil, coal and other industries stepped up their drives to ease the laws, citing the need to save and exploit energy. "Their attack seemed to come from all sides," said Maine Senator Edmund Muskie. "It was like an overwhelming tide...
...exploit that lode, the industry has to change radically. Estimated demand will grow this year by 10%, to 660 million tons, but domestic output will not keep up with it. Forecasts for 1974 production range from a repetition of last year's 590 million tons to 650 million tons. Indeed, several New England utilities have already contracted to buy coal from Poland. The industry is having some trouble raising money for expansion. Investors worry particularly about the three gritty problems that bedevil coal...
...major oil exporting nations and announced a 77% increase in the posted price of Nigerian crude, making it $14.69 per bbl. The new price is expected to earn Nigeria some $7 billion this year. In addition, the government currently is mulling over offers, mostly from American firms, to exploit the 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas that now are flared daily as waste...
...terms of creating an inspired, sensitive statement pornography can be an aesthetic, enlightened art form which does not exploit the body. But the editors of Playgirl and Viva generally tread the beaten path depicting men subduing or taking advantage of brainless sex kittens. One of Viva's photographic essays begins with a disheveled, slutty wench lying on the grass half-naked, touching and enjoying her body. An arrogant, supercilious gentleman approaches her and carries her home after sampling her wares. The following pictures show him in his bedroom nude, coyly fingering a whip, making love to the girl and ends...
Pearson tries hard to humanize the Secret Service Superman. But as the ad ventures come thick and fast, 007 remains precisely what Fleming made him: a suave robot programmed to exploit the romantic idea that physical pleasure becomes more intense as death becomes more imminent. After 1 5 min utes, readers looking for truth will see the put-on. But true Bondsmen will rejoice at any flimsy excuse to see their man in action again. Bond is last seen heading for Australia on the trackdown of an old antagonist, Irma Bunt, the late Ernst Stavro Blofeld's baleful dumpling...