Word: exploitationism
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The ad didn't run because a majority of editors at Thursday's staff meeting decided it was too offensive, and was grossly at odds with the papers stated policy of condemning sexism and the exploitation of women. Those editors made a specific editorial decision--one that will, in the...
Another complexity is that democratic forms, wherever they have taken hold, have rested upon very specific historical and cultural antecedents. Unique circumstances have provided for the evolution of parliamentary democracy and the liberal conception of rights in the industrial societies of the West, while postcolonial history has shown that other...
The age-old scarcity of water and foliage in the wasteland has always sharply limited its animal population. But the recent exploitation of the desert has added to the environmental pressures on wildlife. Israeli officials estimate that the hyena population, about 200 in the 1950s, had been reduced to less...
The country's economic troubles have worsened as the Vietnamese drive to develop lags, and the preliminary goals of its five-year plan are not being met. In an attempt to attract foreign investment, Vietnam now permits full foreign ownership of certain kinds of firms, the first socialist nation to...
Your article on the Endangered Species Act [Oct. 16] displays the insensitivity with which man exploits the environment for his own short-run economic gain. What a pity that the earth's innocent creatures must pay for this exploitation with their existence. One could look upon man as a...