Word: exploiter
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...help if, as expected, major fighting erupts soon. "The insurgents are now appearing in larger contingents than ever," said former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile last week. Some military officers are convinced that the rebels will take the fight from the countryside to the cities, where they can exploit telecommunications, transportation systems and power networks...
While Mrs. Aquino remains an important symbol of the spiritual purity and moral tenor of the new regime, she seems unable to clean out the stables. Political opportunists continue to jockey for position and to exploit every conflict within her government...
...least 65% of the vote, the opposition may demand a snap presidential election. Aquino's former Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, has actively campaigned for a no vote. While there was no evidence linking Enrile to the aborted coup, neither was there any doubt that he intended to exploit Aquino's troubles. Warned Enrile last week: "There is a real degree of erosion in the vaunted political strength of Aquino...
...spot, Deng knew he would destroy his own carefully crafted succession scheme and fuel a conservative backlash that could present serious obstacles for his economic reforms. Deng's move may have been defensive, a pre-emptive strike designed to stop conservative forces, which were revving up to exploit the student demonstrations by seeking to roll back the economic and social reforms. In short, it is quite possible that Deng simply sacrificed Hu to save his cherished modernization program...
...this fall. He turned down invitations to join the boards of three major corporations. O'Neill has also spurned offers to appear in an American Express commercial and on Hollywood Squares, and to play a judge on Superior Court. Says he: "I am trying not to exploit the office of Speaker. If people are still interested in me in six months, then we might talk. But for right now, nothing...