Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mineral wealth of an area in Canada bigger than England and Wales combined. The two also recently formed a joint company-appropriately called Second Continuation Ltd.-to give the French house a stake in the British bank and enable them jointly to exploit new opportunities on the Continent if and when Britain joins the Common Market. The sums involved are large, but in the contemporary world of great industrial consortiums, Rothschild money is no longer indispensable and controlling; cabinets no longer fall at their whim...
...British fortune, and publicly owned banks grew up everywhere to sap their power. In France, the Rothschilds' railroads were taken over by the government. The German and Italian branches of the family had already died out for lack of male heirs. The tired old Rothschilds conspicuously failed to exploit opportunities in the U.S., and thereby missed the greatest industrial expansion in history...
...Goodman has a curious conception of what responsibility entails. He told the Forum that one's choice of sexual objects and practices should be absolutely free "so long as one does not exploit another person." But can the seduction of a young male student be considered non-exploitative? Even if society's condemnation of bisexuality is sick and repressive, such an initiation exposes the student to inevitable emotional damage...
...throwing himself off Waterloo Bridge, looks down his telescopic sights." Even Texas found its defenders, in a rough and ready way. Said London University's History Professor Harry Allen: "You don't conquer a great land, you don't drive off Indians, you don't exploit natural resources, without having a tough streak...
...mannered little pastiche of urban infidelities that is pure counterfeit. Husband Kevin McCarthy can't stand shrewish Wife Lee Grant, so he takes up with Model Viveca Lindfors, who is the mistress of his best friend Herbert Berghof. Rounding out the quintet, for no discernible reason except to exploit interracial dalliance, is Diana Sands as a footloose Negro photographer...