Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have to be a line uttered in absolute disgust about Daisy's flirtations and how they violate expected sex roles: "A man may know every one, men are welcome to that privilege." The implication is that Daisy may certainly not know everyone, and Bogdanovich sets out to exploit the underlying sexual currents of this statement. One of the mysterious qualities of James's novella is the question of Winterbourne's motives. At the very beginning there are intimations of an illicit relationship between him and another woman never seen in the book. Then the narrative returns to the story...
Equally appealing to voters was Trudeau's ability to skillfully exploit a public mood ranging between apathy and antipathy, distrust of establishments, and politics in general, which has been plaguing Western governments all year. Though he has been the country's Prime Minister since 1968, Trudeau was convincingly able to appear as the candidate who hated holding a summer election as much as the voters did. Wherever he went, Trudeau's opening lines pointed out what a waste of everyone's time the campaign was. The message left the impression of a leader who wanted only...
...foreign currency. But under the complicated tax system, the Jamaican take on each ton shipped dropped from $2.83 in 1971 to $1.61 in 1973. Moreover, the companies could determine how much ore they would mine and export without consultation with Jamaican authorities. Says Manley: "They were able to exploit the fields without regard to Jamaican economic interests...
...late '60s, the press was reporting on radical activists who attacked, in one way or another, just about every traditional American value. To many Americans it appeared that the press was simply giving a platform to revolutionaries and crazies. Some radical protests seemed staged to exploit TV network coverage?and the networks went along...
...will likely weaken the already fragile two-month-old coalition government (Italy's 36th since the war) headed by Christian Democratic Premier Mariano Rumor. Though Rumor himself kept clear of the referendum, he will now be susceptible to pressures from his Socialist coalition partners. They might try to exploit their victory on divorce-the 1970 law was proposed by Socialist Deputy Loris Fortuna-by demanding more low-cost housing, better schools and hospitals, and increased investment in Italy's underindustrialized south...