Word: exploitationism
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The primary goal of the Nicaraguan government is to secure freedom for its people after centuries of domination and exploitation. Why not tell about the good things happening in that country under the Sandinistas, such as increased literacy, improved health care, and housing and land redistribution?
The Greeks protested the "unholy exploitation" of the Olympic flame. The International Olympic Committee actually owns the flame, but the Greeks are its guardians. "The flame for us is a sacred thing. It is not for sale," declared Spyros Foteinos, mayor of Olympia, where the ancient Games were first held...
It had been a frustrating standoff. For more than three years, Administration officials and some development-minded Republican Senators from Western states stalled legislation designed to add millions of acres of undeveloped forest land to the nation's 80 million-acre protected wilderness system. Conservationists, aided by sympathetic Democratic...
Several factors caused the Administration to retreat from its antiwilderness position. Republicans up for re-election this fall became worried about projecting the wrong image. More important, developers began to apply pressure for a compromise. In a case involving California forests, a federal court ruled that nonwilderness designations had been...
Farrakhan, in the tradition of Elijah Muhammad, speaks in an apocalyptic tongue that many whites find frightening but that many blacks do not take seriously. "I don't represent violence," Farrakhan insisted to TIME. "Not at all, and I'm not antiwhite, I'm against that which...