Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that helps patients withdrawing from addictive drugs [MEDICINE, June 1] was developed and patented by the CITA organization. It was a vindication of the safety of the CITA process to see the criticism of our so-called competitors, who perform unsafe variations of rapid detox in cheap storefronts. They exploit a desperate and vulnerable patient population. In contrast, CITA operates from prestigious hospitals, using the finest physicians and medical treatments. More than 500 patients have been effectively treated, affording an unprecedented opportunity for those addicted to heroin, methadone and narcotic painkillers to return to a functioning life after years...
Recording companies like Columbia and Paramount recognized and quickly moved to exploit this untapped black music market, creating segregated "race records" divisions. It was several years before these companies saw that male blues too could generate profits...
These smaller protests culminated in a larger attack on Harvard's alleged use of companies that exploit workers to produce its insignia clothing. PSLM organized a petition drive outside the Science Center in the late spring to present to Harvard...
...strong enough, proud enough and professional enough to handle his celebrity. He wasn't undone by it, as the teen idol of a later generation, Elvis Presley, was; he didn't exploit the gifts of his fame and talent, he built on them, and in the end beat time itself. Not only does his music define the time and temper of the American decades in which it was made, but his singing moves those songs out of time into something indistinct, everlasting. In Sinatra's music, there is no past tense...
...sainthood-by-acclaim than the Dalai Lama. Revered as a Buddha of compassion by his followers, Tibet's political and religious leader garnered not only a 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts on behalf of his Chinese-occupied homeland but also (as the Apple Computer ads strove to exploit) the vague undifferentiated goodwill of a cynical and overcaffeinated world still auditioning sources of truth, calm and peace...