Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However these arguments may sort out in light of the new discoveries, the most serious error was committed by the Japanese. Prange points out that Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, commander of the Pearl Harbor strike force, had many misgivings about the attack and ultimately failed to exploit its success after carrying out his original orders. When the initial two waves of planes returned to their carriers, Nagumo ordered the task force home. Because the U.S. carriers Lexington and Enterprise were still somewhere at sea, the admiral was concerned about protecting his fleet. Had he sent in another wave of attackers...
...workers' compensation. For the longer run, Michigan Director of Commerce Norton Berman is pursuing longstanding efforts to diversify the state's economy. Some of his aims involve futuristic technology industries, such as the construction of industrial robots, computer-aided manufacturing and genetic engineering. Berman also hopes to exploit the state's natural resources of wood and water. He claims enthusiastically that Michigan's borders embrace or touch on 20% of the nation's fresh water, while booming Sunbelt states are running dry. He has not specified, however, how the water can be used...
...shrugs. "The way I see it, it comes down to a basic decision between two directions. One is to really affirm and exploit the artistic side--the side I live in here. But I don't know--that would never sever the connection, never cut the umbilical cord--it would be like never leaving mother. Sometimes I just want to eschew acting--to be a statesman, to reconcile the U.S. and the USSR or something...
Rivalry between the Islamic Guards, the clergy's military arm, and the regular armed forces gave Moscow another valuable opportunity to exploit Iran's increasingly unstable situation. Fear of a strong opposition and disloyalty in the armed services has led such clergymen as Hojja-toleslam Ashgar Mousavi Khoeiny, the deputy speaker of the Majlis (parliament), to endorse Soviet offers to reinforce the military effectiveness of the Islamic Guards. Thus, for the first time, the Soviet Union has introduced its weapons into revolutionary Iran. Soviet advisers, forming the nucleus of a military mission, have begun teaching Islamic Guards...
Some companies have been quick to exploit the vulnerability of unions, chiefly by hiring consultants to keep unions out or to encourage employees to decertify unions even after they are in a plant. Such professional union busters have long held sway in the South, where few workers have been organized. Only 1.7% of manufacturing workers in the Greenville-Spartanburg area belong to unions, and South Carolina's business establishment intends to keep it that way. Says Carroll Gray, executive vice president of the local Chamber of Commerce: "We'd prefer not to have unions. We will continue...