Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this paragraph consists in the fact that in a literal sense such a poster did exist. It announced the first meeting of the spring semester and was intended merely to be eye-catching and humorous. In light of the apparent willingness of certain segments of the Harvard community to exploit any potentially suggestive statements made by the GLSA in order to denigrate the gay community, such a poster was perhaps unwise. In is distressing, however, to feel the need to take such idiocy seriously, but it is more distressing, and also frightening, to know that there are Harvard students...
...couldn't understand how they [the growers] could exploit farm workers when there are so many of us and so few of them," he added. "I have tried to organize, educate, and empower the Chicano people...
...seizures, making wrongful arrests and openly filching money and goods from peasant homes. In retaliation, guerrilla-directed campesinos bombed police stations and ambushed drug busters. A score of policemen were killed. As the mutinous spirit quickened, the government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry began to fear that guerrillas might exploit the drug-related troubles even further. Last August the President declared a state of emergency and sent 1,000 troops to restore order. They did so--by telling the antinarcotics squad to halt its war against drugs...
...Minister Andrei Gromyko declared that Greece's positions on disarmament were close to the Soviet Union's, but they refrained from harsh attacks on the U.S. or NATO. So, for once, did Papandreou. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Soviets have behaved quite subtly. They're hoping to exploit Greece's differences with its allies, but they know if they push too hard, it will backfire...
...choreographer Rich Atwell gives these dancers little with which to work. After two routines the steps become monotonously similar. The energy of each dance stays at full blast making high kicks, split leaps and multiple turns seem ordinary. The art of dancing is lost in Atwell's desire to exploit the dazzling tricks of the trade...