Word: exploiter
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...important supplier of U.S. energy needs. America already imports about as much oil from Africa - principally Nigeria and Angola - as it does from Saudi Arabia, but the African share of the U.S. market is slated to almost double over the next two decades as U.S. companies move to exploit the high-quality offshore deposits in the Guinea basin. Last year, alone, they invested some $10 billion in the region, and that level of investment is expected to be maintained for years to come, making West Africa a region of increasing strategic significance in the U.S. national security framework...
...post-Auschwitz age. And so, in the catalog of epithets, "Nazi" trumps them all - the ghosts of the 55 million who died in World War II see to that. If a wise God were in charge of the world stage, he would decree: Thou shalt not exploit the memory of the Holocaust by using it for cheap political purposes. The label has become the universal atomic bomb of denigration, and you don't even have to be German to have it dropped on your head. Remember last fall, when one of Schröder's minions compared George W. Bush...
...only to the extent that the time-frame was exaggerated. Okay, so Saddam posed no immediate threat to the U.S. but he would eventually pose such a threat, so better to eliminate his regime now - thus former NSC staffer Ken Pollack. The Democrats appear confused on whether to exploit the intelligence meltdown, with most hewing cautiously to the belief that the WMD claims that justified their vote for war will eventually emerge. But presidential contender Senator John Kerry this week accused President Bush of lying in making his case for war - perhaps a reflection that Kerry, who voted...
...Miami freshman Glenn Sharpe—the cornerback whistled for pass interference on fourth down in the first overtime of Ohio State’s victory in the Fiesta Bowl. It’s one of those great moments of human frailty that sportswriters like me love to exploit...
...past. It's his first acknowledged work for children. And he can let go of some of the emotional residue of his childhood. "I wanted to handle my situation creatively, where you turn the bad or the evil feelings into something you can live with and explore and even exploit...