Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accused the right-wing extremists of weakening the nation by "stirring division and hysteria." "We are fearful," the Union resolved, in a statement that was also directed against left-wing radicals, "that rational discussion is being corrupted by the hatred and fear fomented by ultra-right-wing groups which exploit cold-war anxieties and the frictions engendered by integration and other social problems...
There was a natural tendency in the free world to rejoice at this falling out, and perhaps to root for Russia's "soft" line to triumph over Red China's "hard." While it must and can exploit Communist rifts, the West is in danger of deluding itself on this issue, for "soft" and "hard" are relative. While Khrushchev may seem soft to Peking, he appears exceedingly hard elsewhere. These terms are, ultimately, only labels for different strategies aimed at the same end: the overthrow of capitalism, the triumph of Communism. That is a simple but important fact that...
...then, Jones foresaw sharply increased Pentagon pressure for higher performance, and sharply increased competition among companies for the defense dollar. How could relatively small Northrop prosper? One answer, Jones concluded, was to concentrate on making selected parts rather than entire systems: "Whatever we could do exceedingly well, we would exploit; whatever we were second best in, we would drop...
...collection of product lines but as a storehouse of skills. Though its F89 and Snark rapidly became obsolete, Northrop, in building them, had become expert in the fields of guidance, communications, fire control and optics. Tom Jones, steadily moving up through the Northrop hierarchy, recommended sweeping changes to exploit the company's spectrum of esoteric knowledge. By the time he took over the presidency from Collins in 1959, Northrop had become subcontractor to the whole space age, had even erased the word "Aircraft" from its corporate title. "It made much more sense," says Jones, "to group ourselves around...
Emerson asserted that the 50 emerging nations of Asia and Africa are, like the Soviets, attempting to exploit the United Nations "as their instrument" against the Western colonial powers...