Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intensive study in The New York Times concluded that two bottlenecks hindered economic progress in Asia. The first was the increasing population resulting from better medical care. The second was the failure to distribute equitably the benefits of investment in industry and agriculture. For centuries the West attempted to exploit Eastern civilization. Now it tries to explain it away with facile economic analysis...
Since the city does not have a spring primary to weed out the weaker candidates, the November ballot will be a lengthy one. With no lack of issues and aspiring office-seekers to exploit them, political controversy and confusion will be rampant in Cambridge this summer...
Clearly, low-income people and members of minority groups are the most frequent targets of misguided researchers. Regulatory legislation is necessary to curb the use of human guinea pigs. Researchers who exploit human subjects in their investigations ought by law to be held accountable for their crimes...
...exploit the newly discovered treasures of Siberia, the Soviets have undertaken what may be the greatest construction effort in history. A quarter of all Soviet development capital is now going into building pipelines, highways, railroads and entire cities all across Siberia. The scheduled cost of Siberian development in the present five-year plan (1971-75) is $100 billion, and economists say that the figure will increase in the next plan. Soviet authorities used to bar foreigners from the area for security reasons, but the costs of development are so staggering that Moscow is now actively courting foreign investment and technological...
...Communist Party's 185-member Central Committee. "You might say the personality cult is a sort of antidote to factionalism," explains one Western diplomat. "Ceauşescu has a strong determination to demonstrate that there will not be any divisions in Rumania that the Soviets could exploit...