Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scandal were mired in the past and determined to implicate the President even if it meant damaging the country. "If you want the mandate you gave this Administration to be carried out," the President declared, "then I ask for your help to ensure that those who would exploit Watergate in order to keep us from doing what we were elected to do will not succeed...
...Soviets have proved to be impressively shrewd traders, eager and able to squeeze the last kopeck out of any transaction with capitalists. That kind of canny negotiating should give pause to the hundreds of U.S. executives who are rushing to do business with Moscow, especially those who want to exploit Siberian natural gas. In that deal, unlike the grain sales, the Soviets will be the sellers in a sellers' market...
...elder in the gang world and can gracefully step down from active combat in order to permit those coming up to do the corner's fighting and earn, in turn, their "reps." Serving a term in jail also boosts a member's reputation, and many gangs exploit that fact as a means of getting the youngest members to take the blame for the crimes of older boys-knowing a 14-year-old is likely to be treated more leniently in courts...
...early primaries. By late Spring 1972, it was ready to emerge from hibernation. McGovern was the Democratic front-runner and stood alone on the left of the party. His stand on the issues had become a potential liability, and Hubert Humphrey, his one remaining major opponent, sought to exploit it. In Nebraska, McGovern was labelled the candidate for amnesty, abortion and acid. In California, Humphrey attacked McGovern on defense cutbacks and welfare reform...
Only in America could you fill The Golden Bowl with seltzer and sell it. Few writers have had the talent and self-awareness to exploit such a cultural aberration as well as Roth. He fizzed onto the scene in 1959 with the award-winning Goodbye, Columbus, a novella whose tartness and clarity showed precisely what it was like to be a young Jew from Newark, N.J., ashamed of his lower-middle-class background and humiliated by the pretensions of the suburban newly rich. There followed two grim and carefully worked novels in which Roth misplaced his fresh, astringent tone. Letting...