Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many student leaders would like to exploit the president's softer attitude but they have not yet been able to agree on a method. If June 10 exposed dissension within the government over how best to handle the students, it also laid bare the dissension within the students over what direction their movement should take. Factions are not new to Mexican student politics. Their notorious infighting, especially between the technical and preparatory schools, has earned the students a reputation as sideline political actors too busy attacking each other to attack the government...
...unpatrolled border. Nor is there much that the badly undermanned U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service can do about keeping the immigrants out. The "illegals" who are caught-some 320,000 during the last fiscal year-are simply sent back across the border. The people who employ, encourage and often exploit them, are, for all practical purposes, beyond the reach...
...regular army troops and innumerable armed civilians. The exercise, pointedly called "Freedom '71," was designed as a defiant answer to the summer-long Soviet threats and maneuvers against the Yugoslavs. Moscow was furious with Belgrade for cozying up to Peking. The Russians were also hoping to exploit the ancient regional rivalries and not so ancient economic quarrels that plague Yugoslavia...
...Government that has to assume the responsibility. Says Hickel: "The Federal Government has to care. It has an obligation of ownership to more than 200 million Americans. A perfect example of not owning and not caring is the whale. No one owns the ocean, so everyone goes out to exploit the whale. The same thing is true of public lands." Moreover, to feel ownership, Americans need leadership. On close inspection, his definition of leadership is not far from his description of himself. "If I have an obsession," Hickel writes, "it is always to be positive." That also might...
Liebermann is without a doubt the finest all-around player in the Ivy League. In his first two Harvard-Penn games Liebermann personally dominated midfield play and triggered his team's scoring threats. Just having the senior forward on the field promises the Quakers can exploit three or four dangerous situations per game. Unfortunately, Penn's weakness in the halfback line causes Liebermann to concentrate a great deal on defense and the Quakers will suffer from that loss...