Word: covetous
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...Thou shalt not covet a taste beyond thy husband's income...
...rate of $200 million a year) is destroying old values before new ones can be substituted. Oil money expanded the middle classes; it educated them, and created a class hostile to economic domination by foreigners. Oil money increased the gap between rich & poor, and gave the poor something to covet...
...independence from the West and for material progress, and this drive "may not be stopped." The U.S. must "orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition, rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding and support, not imperious direction; the dignity of equality, and not the shame of subjugation...
...stayed in Bridgeport for 14 years-probably the happiest years of his life. In that time, things like washing machines, ironers, refrigerators (it was Wilson who took the cumbersome coils off the top of the G.E. refrigerator, streamlined it, and made the housewife covet it) became some of the mainstays of G.E. Charlie Wilson made them-made more of them faster and better. It was a production man's dream...
Brannan Plan or not, as long as there were farmers' votes and politicians to covet them, nobody in the foreseeable future was going to turn the farmer wild aloose...