Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Granted that this is essentially an ethical issue, runs the argument, is it not the case within almost every firm in which Harvard has invested that there is complicity with something evil? General Motors pollutes and discriminates; public utilities do much the same; other firms produce war materials, or exploit other colonial societies; and so on. Moral consistency then, demands that if Harvard divests from Gulf it ought to divest from every other firm, which is, of course, an absurd idea, since Harvard would thereby destroy itself...
...escalation. Where Joseph Kraft had Nixon "courting confrontation" with Moscow, James Reston spoke of a "temporary expression of presidential frustration and anger rather than a calculated plan to force a showdown." Victor Zorza, the London-based Kremlinologist, saw the bombing strategy as "a deep game designed to exploit the differences between the hawks and the doves in the Kremlin in order to maneuver Moscow into bringing about a peace settlement in Viet Nam." The New York Post's James Wechsler pooh-poohed any pretense of preplanning: "What often seemed a calculated strategy of surprise actually reflects the infirmity...
...movement is on the upswing. Those who have actively demonstrated their opposition to the regime were expelled from institutions of higher learning. But now a new movement of semi-legal syndicalism seems to be springing up, and this time the students are slightly more experienced. They know how to exploit legality better, they keep the rules of secrecy more conscientiously when it is necessary, and, most important, the numbers of consciously politicized students are increasing...
...attack on the U.S. Evidently, they were taking no chances of upsetting Nixon's scheduled Moscow summit meeting with Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev in May. In private, the Russians were not so restrained. To a reporter, one Soviet diplomat in Washington complained: "Look how Nixon is trying to exploit our differences with Peking. This is a very dangerous game for you and for everyone...
...stiffen his supporters in their growing irritation with organized labor. Should Heath snap rather than bend-as did that other obstinate Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, in 1957-who would fill the vacuum? The Tory Party would never accept the fiery, rabble-rousing M.P. Enoch Powell. But his demagogy would exploit basic passions, for he personifies the fears, jealousies and hatreds of many British people to a frightening degree...