Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sophie isn't alone. As the global economy continues to tank - the U.S. shed 663,000 jobs in March, and millions of jobs are disappearing from Madrid to Mumbai - employees are scurrying to exploit company benefits while they have them, scheduling dental exams, indulging in massages, utilizing company-covered therapists and buying bicycles at discounted rates. "People are petrified," says Dai Williams, an occupational psychologist at Eos, a career-consulting firm in the U.K. "It's a question of grabbing what you can while you can." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Libertas succeed? Joannin concedes it could exploit the voter gloom. "This is a period of uncertainty," she says. "We expect is a high rate of absenteeism in the European elections. We might think he is just a populist, but who knows...
...appeared on national TV dressed as an Orthodox Israeli settler and giving the Nazi arm salute while shouting "Heil Israel!" Since then, the comic, the son of a Breton mother and Cameroonian father, has been convicted for, among other things, calling Jews "black slave traders"; for claiming that Jews exploit the Holocaust to avoid political criticism in what he called "memorial pornography"; and for slandering a popular French Jewish entertainer with allegations that he'd been a "secret donor of the child-murdering Israeli army." Sentences meted out for his offenses were fines ranging from...
...meat to distract men from consuming actual meat, the endeavors of Johnny Diablo and his activist peers delve into a more complexly contested territory than the rationale “sex sells” suggests. Pitting the masculine and feminine meanings of the term against each other, they simultaneously exploit men’s anxieties of losing meat as a source of power and reduce women to passive pieces of meat, only satisfying the fantasies of the male viewer...
...create impossible expectations. Yet, for now, Obama has exceeded the expectations of yet another foreign nation, leaving even President Vaclav Klaus somewhat overwhelmed in his wake. Klaus told the media the speech was not the “cosmopolitan speech” he had expected, in which Obama would exploit his presence in Prague to make a general message—instead, Klaus praised the talk as “unexpectedly Prague and unexpectedly Czech...