Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nebraska Governor's race between Orr and Boosalis, both women are polite and well spoken, but, as Orr puts it, "this is no Bake-Off." The candidates tend to agree on contentious issues like abortion (both oppose it), but neither has hesitated to exploit the other's weak points. Boosalis has tried to tie Orr to the Reagan Administration's unpopular farm policies, while Orr has pounced on Boosalis' proposals for restructuring property taxes as "devastating" to senior citizens. Few Nebraska voters gender an issue. When Baptist Pastor Everett Sileven jumped into the Republican primary and argued that female leadership...
...mission is to help with fundraising, but we have absolutely no intention to exploit [the 350th]," says Reardon...
...response of many other taxpayers to the high rates was to clamor for relief through exemptions and deductions. Presidents and Congresses obliged, starting a seemingly endless spiral: every break that benefited one group created an alleged inequity that another group could exploit to win favors for itself. But as these goodies removed more and more income from taxation, rates had to be kept high on those luckless -- or politically impotent -- souls whose earnings did not qualify for special treatment...
...year ago, and taxes on luxury imports have been imposed. Such steps are not nearly enough. Mubarak's dilemma is that sterner measures, which might save Egypt from the embarrassment of defaulting on its foreign loans, could provoke a popular uprising that the fundamentalists are poised to exploit...
...continues to allow an ally in good standing to exploit and repress a race in its population, restrict freedom of the press, and adamantly refuse to compromise its racist system of government in any substantial way, then it weakens its own claim to support the free elements of the world and demonstrates an inconsistency which will harm future diplomatic efforts. South Africa must not be allowed to remain in the drivers seat, closing off its society without international recourse when trouble arises and reopening its doors to the West when commericial demands arise and political dissent is under control...