Word: covetous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Three meet goes, Yale will covet its victory for at least a year...
...Russians even managed to steal atomic secrets. But in the 1960s, as the U.S. outmatched the Kremlin's big missiles with more accurate ones, Soviet spies were ordered by their masters to make high tech their No. 1 target. It is U.S. computer technology that the Soviets truly covet, for the ability to process masses of information in milliseconds is what makes modern weapons so deadly. Says FBI Counterintelligence Chief Ed O'Malley: "Science and technology is the KGB's largest growth industry...
...pagans are licentious and foul-mouthed. They despise the black robes but fear the white man's power. They also covet the iron kettles, muskets and other trade goods the Europeans can provide in exchange for escort services. For the man of God, the journey is a trial of faith and a temptation in the wilderness. Each bend in the river holds new dangers to body and spirit: hunger, pestilence, raiding Iroquois and challenges hurled at Christianity by an Indian shaman...
...Psalm in traditional translation. "The LORD is my shepherd" has a distinctly male aura to it. Far better, say the critics, to render David's words in a neutral way: "God is my shepherd." Similarly, sexism is allegedly rampant in the commandment given to Moses, "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife." Fairness would dictate an even-handed condemnation by adding "or husband...
...developing nations have gone deeper into debt in recent years, the IMF has become a major target of their hostility. They covet its money, but fear the consequences of borrowing it. Argentina, for example, desperately needs $2.1 billion in IMF credits. But in return for the money, the fund insists on a range of tightfisted economic policies that could shatter the country's brittle new democracy. Two weeks ago, Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín bypassed fund negotiators and appealed directly to IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosière for more lenient terms. Yet neither Alfons...