Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Developers, absentee landlords, the universities, the old-time politicians with their banking and real estate businesses, all thrive in Cambridge. They exploit the weakness of city government. They do so at the expense of the residents of the city...
Those in power in Cambridge resist change. Students and young people are prevented or discouraged from registering to vote. Old-time politicians exploit class prejudices to keep "Brattle Street" and blue collar residents from working together for reform. The universities by their real estate policies have slowed the growth of a stable, politically conscious community in Cambridgeport and Riverside...
...cited Africa as the area the United States will probably exploit most, because African countries are still developing. "African has won its political independence but it hasn't seemed to work so far," he said. He pointed to the maintenance of foreign industries within many of the African countries as an indication of their economic dependence on imperialist countries...
...CREEP, too, was strongly tied to the President, Nixon the man would maintain a low-key profile, and they would exploit his carefully publicized role as President. The beauty of this strategy lay in the tight "security in the national interest" the President controlled to keep his nastier acts from the public eye. So detente was played up, the bombings of Cambodia were to remain a secret, and the employment of 15,000 to 20,000 Thai mercenaries in Laos, in direct violation of congressional edict, would not be officially revealed until Ambassador Godley testified before Congress while Watergate...
...boost tax collections, but they are sometimes wrong. Many buyers of vacation homes turn them into year-round residences and require greatly expanded public services. The Vermont Public Interest Research Group once found that the state's ski industry was profitable mostly for outsiders who have come to exploit it. The Rev. Brendan Whitaker has denounced the industry from the pulpit of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Brandon, Vt. Says the pastor...