Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pittsburgh Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield is also chairman of Smith-Corona Marchant and a director of Studebaker and Avco Corp. The hub of this extracurricular activity is Boston, where some 1,000 space-age companies have grown up since World War II, most of them started there to exploit readily available brain power and many of them founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard theorists themselves...
...still accuse each other of scheming villainry. The CRA and its four councillors are convinced that "crackpots, rabblerousers, and short-righted politicians" defeated renewal in Cambridge. On the other hand, the residents of Donnelly Field and their five councillors think that "intellectuals" and "capitalistic cityers" were using redevelopment to exploit them again. The fact is that there were no villains--only some mis-handling and misunderstanding...
...office in 1958 after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the Communists and a gaggle of the discontented have done their best to topple his government. In the economic fallout that came after the corrupt dictatorship's fall, there were many grievances to exploit; Communist-fired mobs roamed the capital; Communist gunmen murdered policemen, started backland guerrilla uprisings, even infiltrated the armed forces, touching off two bloody marine corps uprisings last year. If the Reds themselves were not strong enough to overthrow Betancourt, they hoped to make Venezuela's old-line military officers...
Whatever its origin, each product has found such popular appeal that shrewd owners take elaborate pains to maintain and exploit their secrecy. The Angostura formula is brewed twice weekly in 10,000 gallon hatches in a labyrinthine "secret room." Employees at Pimm's Ltd., the makers of a secret gin sling (Pimm's Cup) whipped up in the 1850s by a London chophouse bartender, are forced to take a company loyalty oath. Only four Carthuisan monks know the formula for Chartreuse, and travel between monasteries to make it. The ingredients for Coke's basic 7-X formula...
...Shakespeare or Descartes, Schweitzer or Einstein, will never be known. What is certain is that all such men used their brains as energetically as they knew how. Today, man may have no greater brain capacity than the ancients, but he has revolutionary ideas about how to exploit...