Word: covetous
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...pull it off, duplicators simply hook a couple of devices called disc drives to their microcomputers, then slip the disc containing the program they covet into one drive and a blank disc into the other. Machines can then read the contents of the programmed disc and write them onto the blank. Manufacturers, of course, have tried to prevent this, usually by scrambling the information in such a way that a straightforward reading of the disc will either generate garbage or erase the program. One way around that is a burglary tool called Locksmith. Designed to permit computer owners to make...
...Thou shall not covet thy wife" does have the ring of a rather strange Eleventh Commandment. But I felt sure the Pope was not that stupid. He isn't. The full text of his talk is a magnificent treatise on the dignity of the human person. No woman, says the Pope, should be viewed only as a sex object. Not even your wife...
...their gold reserves to compete with Western buyers on the already strained world oil market. This would push prices higher and cause incalculable economic turmoil. Or the Soviets could try to conquer Persian Gulf oilfields, which begin just across their southern border. Kremlin leaders flatly deny that they covet oil vital to the industrial West, but intelligence sources report that even Saudi Arabian leaders have held informal talks with the Soviets about the possibility of selling crude in exchange for Soviet aid in refinery construction. Given the political instability of most Middle Eastern regimes, many Western experts fear the Soviets...
They are the kind of stats that a college powerhouse like Alabama's Crimson Tide might covet, but they belong to Moeller High, a smallish (1,008 students) Roman Catholic boys' school in suburban Cincinnati. In the 17 years since Coach Jerry Faust organized a varsity football squad, his Fighting Crusaders have won 159 games, been tied twice and suffered just 17 losses. They have rolled up eight undefeated seasons, including the one they completed a week ago with a 37-6 win over a larger school, Mount Healthy. That left Moeller firmly entrenched atop the informal lists...
Thou shalt, Writer Gay Talese earnestly hopes, covet Thy Neighbor's Wife. That's the title of the latest book by erstwhile New York Timesman Talese, 47, who spent eight intriguing and, some suspect, interminable years in bedrooms, board rooms, massage parlors, even on a free-love farm, researching the changing sexual mores of middle-class America. The conclusions are so enticing that the book, with the publication date still six months away, already has earned nearly $4 million, including a $2.5 million film-rights agreement last week. Now that the sex epic has climaxed, Talese wants...