Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss of the gunboat infuriated the followers of the Ayatullah Khomeini (who charged that the CIA was behind the exploit), the deed may well have brought a few quiet smiles to the faces of French officials. They had finally granted delivery of the ships only days before fears arose over the safety of 106 French citizens, whose departure from Iran was delayed by Islamic extremists two weeks ago. As the Iranians had promised, the French nationals were returned home last week just before the strange hijacking. The French government quickly disclaimed any responsibility for the three warships after they were...
Michael Raus, Jonathan Osier and Byron Burge, who finished private school in the Louisville area in June, faced the prospect of an endless summer without a job before they entered college. The trio then decided to exploit their preppie cachet. They assembled about 25 well-scrubbed young men and women to do odd jobs in the well-heeled area and called their new enterprise Preps for Rent. The basic company uniform: Lacoste shirts, Top Siders and khaki pants or shorts. For $7 an hour, this upper-class job corps mows lawns, serves drinks and paints houses...
When the University last year considered joining one of its professors, Mark Ptashne, in a commercial venture to exploit the findings of Ptashne's recombinant DNA research, many Harvard scientists raised their voices in protest against the deal. Such a venture, the critics warned, could severely compromise the integrity of University researchers and would steer research in the direction of profits rather than the "public good...
...month is October and the year is 1913. A novel set in this place and time automatically creates a reserve of ready-made poignancy: the insular, comfortable people of the period had no idea what the guns of August 1914 would bring. But Author Isabel Colegate does not exploit this sentiment. The coming Great War is, naturally, a fact of which her characters are unaware, and so, except for a few vague anxieties, they cannot think of it. They have other concerns. Sir Randolph worries whether the beaters will be able to flush a sufficient number of pheasants...
...fact remains that writers, like industrialists, exploit resources. And writers usually get more personal. Roth's heightened realism works because it is faithful to specific locales, customs, attitudes and speech patterns. His urban Jews would be out of place in Addis Ababa. Ironically, fame made Roth himself vulnerable to distortion and caricature by the heightened realists who turn successes into celebrities. To be regarded as the thinking man's Woody Allen is the sort of acclaim he can live without...