Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the agonies will be related to racial issues, but that is not the purported focus of Generations. Rather, insists executive producer Sally Sussman, who created the series and supervises the scripts, "these are going to be stories of character and emotion. We didn't do this to exploit discrimination, interracial romance -- any of these predictable ideas." Still, if the series succeeds in illuminating those issues in a fresh way, Generations may well go on for generations...
...that Lorenzo and the Bush administration were willing to exploit such self-interest against the strikers. If commuters really wanted to act in defense of their own interests, they would have realized that the profit motive that encourages Frank Lorenzo to drive his companies into bankruptcy in order to drive out unions is the same attitude that creates shoddy service and higher fares...
Harvard Tri-Captain Jen White faced only 12 shots on goal as compared to the Tigers' Kari Rosencranz, who had to contend with 36. Even a ploy on the part of Princeton to move leading scorer Molly Marcoux back to second line to exploit supposedly weaker opposition proved fruitless, save for a tally late in the third period...
...only a ratification of decay: it releases them from the humiliations of their late careers. So it was with Salvador Dali, who when he died last week at 84 was perhaps the archetype of that 20th century phenomenon, the Embarrassing Genius. He was the first modern artist to exploit fully the mechanism of publicity. He appropriated the idea of the artist as demonic obsessive. He dealt with the question Why should your fantasies matter? by insisting that he was such an extraterrestrial creature, so tuned to the zeitgeist through the trembling antennas of his waxed mustache, that he could...
PETA opposes all animal experimentation and suggests the use of human volunteers, instead. If animal experimentation were eliminated and scientific research were hurt as a consequence, the probable increase in human suffering and death would not be a big problem for PETA. "We don't have a right to exploit animals under some notion of 'human good," said Burnett...