Word: oppressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hensman disclaimed reports of an air of repression in China, and the universities in particular. "There is a great spirit to carry though the revolution, which encompasses a true humanity towards people. If anything, the leaders of the revolution want to win people over, not oppress them," he said
...other markets which have produced Nixon are equally corrupt. The economic market is the free enterprise system, which Nixon and Wilson both praise. This is the system which theoretically guarantees every man an equal start, but allows the strong, in the end, to oppress the weak. Likewise the academic market promises a free exchange of ideas, and teaches that any idea merits consideration. Thus, Vietnam is the "Professors' War," for the professors have given their ideas and the scholarship to the government, arguing that the use to which their work is put is not their concern. Finally, there...
...conference, the islands' 69 bishops denounced widespread corruption and exploitation of the poor. "The failure of government is the failure of every citizen," read the bishops' statement. It went on to detail the governmental sins: "Bribery and extortion . . . illegal traffic in arms and their use to oppress the weak . . . unjust dispossession of farmers . . . the wanton destruction and pillage of homes as a display of force or vendetta . . . the miscarriage of justice through political stratagem...
...idea that, by seeking wealth for themselves, they would create jobs, goods?and wealth ?for others. In modern America, owners and managers figured that their chief duty was to make the biggest profit they could, subject to some qualifying commandments: Thou Shalt Not Cheat Customers, Thou Shalt Not Oppress Workers, Thou Shalt Not Conspire with Competitors. As a citizen, the U.S. executive might worry about housing, education or public health. As a corporate official, he typically considered such things none of his business...
...Science in the hands of the people who rule this country and who run our industries is being used to exploit and oppress people all over the world," Dr. Jonathan R. Beckwith '57, head of the team which isolated a single gene last fall, told the American Society for Microbiology in Boston last night...