Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What politicians in Congress and the White House do today to exploit the current mood of public frustration will otherwise return to haunt American foreign policy for decades to come, the way the mistakes of the past decades have created our current predicament. A more flexible intelligence policy will mean not more information for our leaders but more headaches; more covert operations means more Irans...
...onus of responsibility clearly falls upon the Church. Marcos needs only the most minimal publicity to exploit, while the Vatican and Filipino clergy must take active steps to avert any disasters and then convey their message despite the government's press monopoly. If all goes as planned by the moderates, the visit will legitimize further the ongoing campaign to lift the martial law, if not force Marcos out altogether. Considering the President's stranglehold over the economy and the military, this is indeed a long campaign...
...They have become even more competitive because the decline of the yen against the dollar since mid-1979 has held down the prices of Japanese goods in America. Yet Japanese automakers argue that the major reason for their success is that the U.S. car companies failed to anticipate and exploit the swing to gas-saving small models. That failure certainly contributed to the U.S. success of Volkswagen, which started producing Rabbits at a Pennsylvania plant in 1978, and has experienced such high demand that would-be buyers sometimes have had to wait months for delivery. The company now plans...
...amount of interferon made by these bacterial minifactories was extremely small and impure. But the researchers, who did their work on behalf of Biogen S.A., a Swiss-based firm set up to exploit recombinant DNA technology, hope to produce larger quantities of purer material. The ultimate goal: to bring down the cost of an injection of interferon from today's price of $75 a shot to as little...
...G.O.P. front runner, Ronald Reagan had been helped by the moratorium, since his rivals could not exploit the foreign policy issues as a means of gaining on him. But last week Reagan opened up. He scoffed at Carter's new views of the Soviets. Reagan told TIME: "The only thing that surprises me is that the President is surprised." He added: "President Carter has finally admitted to a truth most Americans have been aware of for some time-the Soviet leaders are not to be trusted...