Word: exploitationism
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The middle and rich peasants are afraid to expose their wealth, fearing that somebody may come along to borrow from them without returning the loans-"like tigers borrowing pigs." The report quoted Middle Peasant Ho Yao-hsiang: "Why bother to make production such a success? It will be sufficient if...
With such a pledge in effect, the problem of luring investment will be up to the individual countries. Argentina's recent law allowing investors to remove only eight percent of the profits they make on their capital investment looks, by comparison to other Latin countries, like the last word in...
Instead of a blanket prohibition of post-season participation, the Ivy agreement should allow each school to decide in which contests its athletes can participate. In this way, individual excellence would receive national recognition without danger of commercial exploitation.
Though such conditions date back to the 18th century, few historians, Ashton maintains, have bothered to make the comparison. "It was so much easier to pick out the more sensational evidences of distress and work them into a dramatic story of exploitation . . . Conditions in the mills and the factory town...
If the community was, as Governor Pyle termed it, "a lawless, commercial, undertaking dominated by a half-dozen greedy and licensed men who used religion as screen for systematic 'white slavery' and economic exploitation," it was a screne and prosperous enterprise. A visitor to Short Creek before the great raid...