It is the foundation for ideas such as that organizations should be aiming at maximizing shareholder value, that organizations should treat employees and contractors as human resources to be exploited and that they should deal with customers as demand to be manipulated.

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The new link should allow other, further-flung fields to be exploited, such as the Lagavulin oil prospect, 250km north of the Shetlands, where Chevron began exploratory drilling in October.

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The local business ad market is a massive opportunity that has begun to be exploited by Internet companies such as Groupon Inc.

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The effort will collapse if cultural heritage is seen either as a pesky impediment to making money, or as something to be exploited for short-term gain.

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Firstly, the former chief executive of Welsh Water, John Elfed Jones tells tonight's Taro Naw programme (21:30 on S4C) that water, like oil, should be seen as a national resource and exploited to make money for Wales.

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As a new leader, Nick Clegg may have calculated that the quiet departure of a popular and influential party figure was rather more appealing than a distracting and divisive inquiry into his alleged wrongdoing which would divide the Lib Dems and be exploited ruthlessly by the party's enemies (as it is now).

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Firstly, as this newly discovered 'blue gold' is mostly located in international waters, making it extra-territorial in international law, it can be argued that the genetic resources living in the deep sea belong to humanity as a whole and therefore ought to be exploited equitably.

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They treat it as if it is a natural phenomenon that can be manipulated and exploited, rather than the fragile creation of several generations of hard work, risk-taking and inventiveness.

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