Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps the surest measure of Ford's new confidence is that he is finally learning how to exploit the fact that he is, after all, an incumbent President. Except for occasional forays into the primary states, he intends to stay in Washington and make news there, setting himself apart from all the other candidates. "He's the only one making the hard decisions," says an aide. "Nobody else is closing military bases or calling for a rise in Social Security taxes...
...employees, ingenious in their fleecing of the public, have concocted a number of arguments for keeping their legal monopoly, and some have even proposed expanding it to eliminate the budding competition in lower classes of mail. One claim is that, if wide-open competition is permitted, firms will only exploit the lucrative first-class letter market, the only class in which the USPS makes a profit. According to this argument, private price-cutting will make it impossible for the USPS to compete in first-class mail, leaving it with only money-losing lower classes. But private firms have already shown...
This nebulous quality ultimately makes the characters baffling. Women are at once narcissistic and manipulative as well as sturdy, realistic survivors. Men are both fatherly providers and wicked seducers. Critic Leslie Fiedler, who is faithful to All My Children, theorizes that soaps are antimale. "First, they show how men exploit women, and second, in a crisis the men are impotent." This may help explain the soaps' unique aspect. Nowhere else in life or drama are both men and women seen to be equally interested in emotional relationships. Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who frequently watches the soaps with the blue-collar...
...stand-in for the story's narrator, a slightly dazed sounding board for the wild ideas and adventures of Danny Dravot (Sean Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine). These two shopworn soldiers of fortune, after time in Her Majesty's forces, set out on their grandest exploit: to become kings of the remote country of Kafiristan, a primitive land in a far corner of Afghanistan. "They have two-and-thirty heathen idols there," Danny announces. "We'll be the thirty-third and -fourth...
...economic diversification. The reliance on a single crop or mineral for export earnings painfully exposes many poor countries to erratic swings in the price of raw materials. Still, while trade relations are not always equitable, it is highly debatable whether the First World has really been using trade to exploit the developing countries. If that were so, notes British Economist P.T. Bauer, then nations like Taiwan, Singapore, Brazil and South Korea, which are the most involved in extensive foreign trade, would not have become the most prosperous LDCs. Bauer rightly points out that the poorest states are "those with...