Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most wealthy Latin Americans have so far proved too provincial, too prudent or too suspicious to exploit the new common market trading area set up for them 17 months ago. But there is nothing provincial about Bruno Pagliai, a cosmopolitan tycoon who was reared in Italy, made (and lost) his first million in the U.S. and is now among Mexico's richest men. This week, in the biggest deal yet made within the nine-nation Latin American Free Trade Area, Pagliai, 60, loaded the first part of a $7,000,000 order of steel pipe for the Argentine PASA...
Satire, or a bit of wit, might have given pop art a certain charm. But the pop artists do not expose the vulgar; they merely exploit it, down to the last pecan-covered butterscotch...
...British, who came to exploit the rich Brazilian market, broke down many of the social barriers. They "unshadowed" Brazil, leaving it open, plain and more English. Shutters were replaced by glass windows; verandas were built so that the mansion women at least could look out on the street. The streets were paved, lighted, and generally "emancipated" from the wealthy...
...Your Fah Nefah Ne-face" is every bit as distorted, and openly comical, as its title. Johnnie and Sallie Collins, a brother and sister, play outrageous tricks on a world with a rigid sense of propriety. They exploit sentimentality by feigning an accidental meeting under the clock at the Biltmore, pretending to be long-lost siblings, leaving onlookers with a happy tale they will tell and retell. They mock tradition and rumor by registering as newlyweds in a motel, and asking for separate rooms because she is shy. But finally it is society that has the last laugh. Several years...
...disagreed with this view, arguing that the United States probably would not exploit a decisive nuclear edge in the future, just as it failed to use its nuclear monopoly after World War II to bludgeon, the Russians into an advantageous general settlement. On the other hand, he felt that the Russians might use a decisive advance they made in nuclear weaponry to threaten the United States...