Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NCAA had to rule as it did rather than set a precedent that would damage it in later cases. There are hundreds of colleges out there looking for such loopholes to exploit, and in the case of big-time college basketball and football, the financial stakes have become so enormous that the strict enforcement of such rules seems necessary...
...Bache Securities, who admits to being uncertain about the impact of the budget: "After hearing most economists shout wolf for two years about the deficit, people are starting to wonder whether the supply-siders might be right after all." The swift recovery has made it difficult for Mondale to exploit the budget issue against Reagan...
Harkin, a coal miner's son who served as a Navy pilot in Viet Nam, is trying to exploit Jepsen's gaffes with the campaign slogan: "Tom Harkin-a Senator lowans can be proud of." Jepsen has sought to make Harkin's liberal voting record the key issue. But though Iowa's voters tend to be conservative on most social issues, they are less so on matters of military and foreign policy. Harkin, who has won five successive terms in a Republican district in southwest Iowa, has tried to deflect criticism of his opposition...
...case against interviews with writers is historic: they exploit personalities, expose their subjects in verbal undress, without their styles hitched up, and they traffic in anecdote and gossip. This is also the case in favor of such interviews. And why not? How else would a faithful reader learn- as he does in Writers at Work-that Elizabeth Bishop, while a student at Vassar, ate from a bedside pot of Roquefort cheese at night to stimulate dreams for her notebooks, and once spent a night in a tree outside her dormitory? Or know about Carson McCullers' visiting Elizabeth Bowen...
...unwittingly invite this kind of treatment. She did not get to where she is by dint of a cause, ideology or even issue. Ferraro got to where she is because of who she is: daughter of poor immigrants, teacher, lawyer, mother, prosecutor-political assets she is not shy to exploit. She claims these to be the source of her values, and it was these values and those sources that she displayed so prominently in her acceptance speech in San Francisco. They are, in fact, the only discernible theme of her campaign so far. If you run on your person...