Word: exploitationism
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Seventy-eight years have passed since Bram Stoker dredged him from the velvet underground of Victorian sexual repression. The authentic apocalypse of war, the real specter of deprivation, should have exorcised this titled vampire long ago. Instead, Count Dracula has become the Western world's most durable ghoul. There...
Earlier, some sponsors were accepted with the most cursory of investigations, often after nothing more than a telephone interview. The result: a number of "breakdowns," in which sponsors have not fulfilled their commitment to provide for the refugees until they can fend for themselves. There have been a few sordid...
Exploitation of labor continued for generations. As late as the 1890s, Henry C. Frick, after breaking a strike at the Carnegie Steel Works in Homestead, Pa., reduced wages and re-established an 84-hour work week. At the other end of the scale, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and other...
Though Smith was a quiet scholar, he was scarcely bloodless. He comes fully alive in his writings as a skeptical observer of human nature, a staunch advocate of political as well as economic liberty, and now and then something of a deadpan Scottish wit. Much of The Wealth of Nations...
> If any community has reason to be sensitive about offshore oil exploitation, it is Santa Barbara, Calif., scene of a disastrous oil spill in 1969. But last week the voters of Santa Barbara County, by a narrow 35,500 to 34,700, turned down a chance to keep oil development...