Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yugoslavs also fear that Moscow will exploit their internal quarrels, chiefly the one between the Catholic Croats and the more numerous Orthodox Serbs. The Croatians, whose territory includes the lucrative Dalmatian coast, have been complaining that the Serbs used their influence in the federal government to siphon off Croatia's tourism riches for use in other republics...
...truthfully a shame that the legitimate grievances of many Italian Americans are so openly exploited by an actual "godfather" of Colombo's type. This, while he and others in organized ciime continue to exploit and parasitically live off of all Americans...
...only plausible view of Wilson's switch is that it was done to preserve party unity by appeasing the strong antiMarket sentiment of Labor's left-wing and union elements. He may also be hoping to exploit popular misgivings over the move into Europe. Although polls show that more Britons are against entry than for it (41% v. 35%), the pro-Market faction is steadily growing...
Beyond Johnson lie several fascinating theories about the motives for the assassination attempt. An hour after the shooting, in a telephone call to the Associated Press, a group calling itself the Black Revolutionary Attack Team claimed credit for the shooting and vowed further assaults on figures who exploit the black community. Two days later they warned that an apartment house owned by a white Harlem drug pusher would be bombed; it was. The group had never been heard of before the first phone call, and authorities were unable initially to determine the identity or strength of its members. The rhetoric...
...explanation for the massive U.S. presence. A sizable minority of 17% said the Americans were there primarily to test their new weapons or to make money for munitions manufacturers. Nobody suggested, however, as do some New Leftists in the U.S., that Washington plunged so deeply into the war to exploit the oil that has recently been discovered off the shores of South Viet Nam. A majority said that the U.S. could have won the war but chose not to do so for its own perverse and selfish reasons...