Word: coveteousness
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...such pocketbook arguments for liberalized trade aren't convincing enough, there are some compelling political ones. The countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union now groping toward economic liberalism covet GATT membership as a way to reinforce market-oriented reforms ) and to win foreign investment. It would be unfortunate for GATT to wither and die just as these countries are joining...
Oilmen argue that the failure to open such reserves will only speed the move overseas and increase U.S. dependence on imports. Marathon Oil Co. is pouring nearly three-fourths of its $750 million current production budget into foreign ventures. "Other countries covet our technology and the jobs we bring, and they're luring us with sweet deals," says Marathon president Victor Beghini, "while our government is turning its back...
...UNTIL you see three Macintosh screens. Smoke enough crack to make Marion Barry's drug habit look like a day at the beach. Have sex, lots of sex, in many different places, in many different positions--and preferably with many different people of many different genders and species. Steal. Covet. Lust. commit adultery. dishonor your father and mother (the best method is to tell them about all the guilt they made you feel as a child). And, if necessary, kill-roommates, advisors, cheerful juniors, people who finished their theses a month early are all legitimate targets. Sin is everything...
...source of magic squares, pool-table pyramids, and various patterns that reproduce themselves indefinitely. Most of us, however, know it on less formal terms: as a friend to decision making (9 judges on the Supreme Court) and the key to the heavens (9 planets and 9 Muses). Statisticians covet it -- since if all 9 members of a baseball team have 9 at bats (in any number of 9-inning games), their batting averages can be computed instantaneously (2 for 9 is .222, 3 for 9 is .333, 4 for 9 is .444, and so on, through the order...
...periods of low rainfall, they are almost indistinguishable from any other acreage. But when the frozen ground warms in early spring, the depressions swarm with crustaceans and insects that provide migrating waterfowl with essential protein. The smaller potholes also enable breeding pairs of birds to find the privacy they covet...