Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Party to seek office. Perhaps more tellingly, the government for the first time in the crisis pointed an accusing finger at outsiders for fomenting student unrest, a signal to some of growing official alarm in Peking about continued student protests. The government accused Taiwan of ordering its "agents" to exploit the demonstrations, with the goal of toppling the party from power...
After 20 months of testing, O'Grady learned last month that his prospecting permit was insufficient. To exploit the beach, he needs permission from several agencies, including the National Park Service, which controls the beach as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. They are unlikely to allow O'Grady to mine a national park...
...fact that Silber is willing to kick students off campus and make them face the rack of the Boston housing market reveals the disequilibrium of power which he is willing to exploit. He knows that individual students have no recourse against his harsh discipline except to shut up and obey. Only this time, Silber went too far; he was taken to court and his scorn for the law was, most delightfully, revealed...
...country's 17-year-old Communist insurgency. The President then announced that she had appointed Deputy Defense Minister Rafael Ileto, a West Point graduate and former Ambassador to Iran and Thailand, to succeed Enrile. Said the President: "I hereby give notice to all those who may be inclined to exploit the present situation that the sternest measures will be taken against them if they...
...generations that hatch every year, only the last goes south. Gorging on nectar, monarchs fly up to 100 miles a day. One explanation for the spectacular mass movement is that when the glaciers of the last Ice Age retreated from North America, the butterflies expanded their range northward to exploit new food supplies, and then began migrating to survive the winter. How the butterflies find their winter hideouts is a conundrum as well. An intriguing theory suggests that, like certain species of birds, the monarchs may respond to the earth's magnetism: the Mexican hideaways surround a large iron...