Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tapped. The consumer would not suffer too much immediately, since the cost of new gas would be averaged in with the cost of existing supplies. But in the long run, deregulation would send gas prices skyrocketing. At least partly for that reason, big gas producers are not beginning to exploit huge new finds in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, they are waiting for the bonanza of eventual deregulation...
...profitable; the oil is so thick that dilutants often have to be poured into the wells to increase its fluidity so that pumps can suck it out. Now, because of the oil-price bonanza, the Venezuelan government has the cash to buy the sophisticated technology needed to exploit the find. At the same time, the government is being pressured to placate national pride by taking over control of foreign oil concessions before 1983, when most of them are scheduled to expire. Says one foreign oil executive: "We are past the point of shuddering when nationalization is mentioned...
...delicate" because South Africa's racist government allows the corporations to reap amazingly high profits and to exploit its seemingly inexhaustible resources heavily, in return for the foreign investment which enhances its economic and political muscle...
...early years of this century, though, the issue of Jewish exploitation of Arab labor didn't even arise very much because a second wave of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe--fleeing a new wave of pogroms and especially the suppression of the Russian Revolution of 1905--consisting mostly of Zionists determined to be productive themselves and convinced that if they didn't exploit Arab workers, there wouldn't be any conceivable obstacle to unity with them...
...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...