Word: covetousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CORNERBACKS. Jackie Wallace, Arizona, 6 ft. 4 in., 198 lbs., and Burgess Owens, Miami, 6 ft. 3 in., 183 lbs. He needs more experience in pro-style zone defenses, but Wallace is the kind of rangy, racing defensive back that the pros covet. A deft and definitive tackier, he ranked among the top ten in pass interceptions this season. Owens is a speedster with "great balance and body control." On pass defense, reports one scout, he exhibits "unusual reach and jumping ability He'll be a persistent interception threat in the pros." Other surefire defensive backs are James Thomas...
MUCH as they may criticize American food, manners or politics, Europeans have long held a grudging respect for U.S. management methods. So European companies tend to send their brightest executives to U.S. business schools; they are eager to hire Europeans who have worked for American firms. What they covet is a share of the American success that is so much in evidence. In Western Europe, U.S. corporations have built a direct investment stake with a market value of an estimated $75 billion-and ambitious Europeans are determined to beat back "the American challenge...
...impose further limits. ITT has made almost all its past acquisitions in exchange for stock. The recent controversies have driven down the price of its shares from an early 1972 high of $64.50 to $55.75 last week, making it less attractive to the owners of any company Geneen might covet. The controversies will also make federal and state government officials supercautious in dealing with ITT executives who approach them for favorable tax, merger or regulatory decisions...
Though the goals men set for themselves need not be of Olympic proportions, Ali discriminates them from the desire "to secure some rank, position or pleasure they covet at the moment... Some of you fells are probably unhappy because there's some woman that you want that don't want you-(laughter and applause)-same with you ladies. How many of you saw a girl that made you say, 'boy, ain't she beautiful. If I could only make her mine, if I could win her love, that's all I need...' And as soon...
Delirious Policy. Scarcely a year has passed in the last two decades without a public demonstration of savagery by the men who hold power, or covet it, in Syria. Prime Ministers have been shot and opponents of the regime have been killed in mass executions; two Jews, labeled Israeli spies, have been hanged-and their bodies left on display for the delectation of the bazaar crowds...