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Reagan accomplished his landslide partly because of his masterly exploitation of the American mood. He both contributed to the sense of optimism and purpose and profited from it. In a way, he also benefited from two developments in the Democratic Party: the candidacies of Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro. If...
Some made millions because they realized, as entrepreneurs always have, that there are patterns in the acquisition of wealth. One is the grasp and exploitation of new technology: the space satellite, the computer and the gene synthesizer today offer the same possibilities that the internal-combustion engine once did. Another...
For example, he deplores Farrah Fawcett-Majors' rise to sex-stardom not on grounds of exploitation, but rather on the grounds that she is not as sexy as the symbols from past generations ("Another time I saw Ms. Fawcett-Majors, she was on TV selling shaving cream. If that's...
Part of Africa's difficulty in general is a result of years of colonial exploitation. National boundaries were drawn by western nations vying for power and resources. Many claim that the existing technological and economic backwardness exists because the developed countries never really wanted an independent Africa--keeping the continent...
Worst of all, debate critics assert, the match-ups have turned into a game of gaffe exploitation. "Modern debates are the political version of the Indianapolis Speedway," charges Political Scientist Nelson Polsby of the University of California, Berkeley. "What we're all there for-the journalists, the political pundits...