Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...numbers of Americans were unhappy with the prospective nominations of Reagan and Carter. They indicated as well that a lot of people were eager for a third choice. Looking back, an Anderson aide said last week: "The whole campaign represents a missed opportunity." The reasons that Anderson failed to exploit his opportunity were a result partly of his own limitations and partly of those of the system. His experience showed dramatically how difficult it is for an independent to reach the White House...
...Iran and thus enabling it to hold its own in the war with Iraq serves Western and Saudi interests in two ways. First, as long as Iran can defend itself, it is less likely to collapse into factionalism and secessionism, which the Soviet Union would almost certainly try to exploit. Second, American policymakers believe it would not necessarily be good news for the West or for Saudi Arabia if Iraq's President Saddam Hussein were to emerge a clear winner from the present war. He has made it plain that he wants to become the strongman and protector...
...seemed a risky exercise that might backfire. But whatever may be thought of the fairness of the strategy, it has turned out that Carter's instincts, and the advice of Pollster Patrick Caddell, were politically sound: fear of nuclear war is indeed an issue the President can successfully exploit...
...private) in the communications field to Third World countries. In a compromise resolution on UNESCO's much debated MacBride report-a global communications study by a panel of experts under the chairmanship of former Irish Prime Minister Sean MacBride-the West also fought off Third World attempts to exploit the report's bias toward government control as a basis for restricting the international news media...
...attrition along the Shatt al Arab was overshadowed last week by the diplomatic efforts to end the fighting?and by political maneuvers to exploit it. Like the fighting, the diplomacy and the politics could have consequences for the entire Middle East and perhaps for the world. Throughout history, war has often resulted in the reordering of international relations, and it has often been true that the longer and bloodier the war, the more divisive the political aftermath...