Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still remember Sadat smoking a pipe, magnificently dressed, clean-cut, doing an interview with Walter Cronkite," said Kalb. "Through Sadat, other Arab leaders began to exploit [the press] for their own policy aims...
...market for the dynamic random-access memory chip, or D-RAM, which serves as the electronic memory in thousands of devices, ranging from personal computers to toasters. Surging production of such products in the U.S. has caused a chip shortage that the Asian manufacturers have been able to exploit. During the first half of this year, Japanese companies shipped $978 million worth of semiconductors to the U.S., a 44% increase over the same period last year...
American presidential candidates are not just permitted to exploit their families, they are required to. Will no one end this foolishness...
Shapiro was formerly the president of the University of Michigan, and last year became Princeton's first Jewish president. From the outset, he began to exploit the symbolic role a university president can play. When he arrived, he invited all faculty and staff members in the university to attend his inaugural party, rather than following the traditional format of an invitation-only, black-tie event...
...East Germans have escaped over the Berlin Wall this year, six by swimming across the Spree. What made last week's exploit so remarkable is that Adryan and company plunged into the river at one of its most heavily guarded points, and in broad daylight. Perhaps, as they had hoped, the presence of so many Western tourists, including an alert British visitor who videotaped the entire escape, deterred the guards from shooting...