Word: plundering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then fall farther than their worst fears. They sweep into the country with a shipment of rifles, organize the natives into armies and take over as rulers. Danny is taken for a god and made king. The .wealth of the entire country is at hand and ready for plunder. Danny, however, decides to live the dream, take a wife and settle into monarchy. Before Peachy starts back across the mountain with half the national treasury, Danny asks him to stay for the wedding. At the ceremony, Danny's new bride bites him on the cheek, and he bleeds...
...Alaskan, I have a ringside seat at the tragedy that is unfolding here [June 2]. Men of greed will exploit and plunder this beautiful land. I am not against progress, but based on man's past performance I can only see disaster looming...
...leaders only help the process along. Since 1965, we have seen increasing black self-pride, and cultural dignity, increasing identification by American blacks with the struggle in Africa and the rest of the Third World, and increasing solidarity between Third World peoples in general. The victims of international capitalist plunder are coming together on a world scale, uniting against their common enemy. In retrospect, we can see that Malcolm's ideological development, his evolution from self-hate to nationalistic self-pride to internationalistic solidarity, was ahead of its time. While it is pointless to whine about "what he could have...
...PRICES. If we had not taken the price action, the world would have continued to misuse and plunder oil, and 50 years from now there would have been a catastrophe. I fully agree that higher oil prices have slowed down the growth rate in the industrialized countries. But in my opinion this is in the best interests of the world. For instance, per capita income in the U.S. now is about $5,000. In Iran, before the oil price increase, it was $350 to $400. If we both have a 6% annual rate of growth, it would mean...
...caught redhanded, according to the Chinese, in the act of making contact with a pro-Soviet Chinese agent (TIME, Feb. 4). That alleged bit of espionage intensified an already lengthy campaign of anti-Soviet propaganda by Peking's press on every subject from Russia's economic assistance ("plunder") to disarmament ("a swindle") to Moscow's policies in Southeast Asia ("a fond dream of building a greater Russian empire...