Word: covetousness
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...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...
...liberal as to make him completely unacceptable to conservatives. He passed the Administration's loyalty test, for example, by voting for the ABM. He attracted some support because his victory would leave open the minority whip's job, which a number of Senators in all factions covet...
...walls. Habitues include the rich, the powerful and the famous, plus thousands of others who flock there to see or be seen, attracted as much by the mystique as the cuisine. A hamburger lunch may cost $14 with a drink or two, yet industrialists, movie stars and social celebrities covet "territorial rights" to "21" 's hard-to-get tables. Their patronage helps the club to earn a substantial profit on revenues of some $4,500,000 a year...