Word: plunders
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...stomach of a King, and a King of England too." Her countrymen gloried in her victory, transforming the battle into an act of national consciousness that gave birth to nearly four centuries of patriotic imperialism. She spawned England's empire, chartering seven companies--including the East India--to plunder and colonize in the name of trade...
...TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, it?s just a lot of political hay. "This whole espionage angle was overblown by the Republicans for political purposes," he says. "There have always been, and will always be, attempts by possible foreign adversaries to plunder our secrets ? and occasionally they?ll succeed. But if the Chinese got anything, they didn?t get very much." Will the reorganization help? Thompson doubts it. The labs do have some inherent porousness ? mostly the results of a college campus-like atmosphere ? yet it is that atmosphere which is critical to attracting the field?s best and brightest...
...East. In addition to our economic vulnerability to OPEC policy and our morally questionable military entanglements, we contribute heftily to the economies of some quite un-democratic nations in the region with our oil purchases. Oil exploration has also led to other (underpublicized) foreign affairs debacles like the virtual plunder of Ecuador by Texaco and Shell's appalling exploitation of Nigerian oil in cooperation with the despotic government...
...Maggie made a point of showing off her body, pointing out that her friends often thought her anorexic and then generously offering to "trade you my body for your mind." As it turns out, it was the one thing she had to offer in return for her weekend of plunder. As the other roommates heard Celeste admonish her strongly, saying, "No you may not borrow my underwear," they had hid their heads under their pillows and sent up a fervent prayer to the night that the interloper be teleported back to U Mass...
...Wheeler, the lost bird was a herald of humanity's continuing plunder of the seas. Having devastated the cod population, Atlantic fishing boats are exhausting the haddock, herring and flounder. "How do you make people see that we are strip-mining the oceans?" Wheeler, once a commercial fisherman himself, asks, his voice edged with puzzlement. "I find myself depressed. Our relationship with the planet is terribly flawed...