Word: greed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing to do with greed and it'sreally about time the Department of Educationlearned about college costs," said CharlesSaunders, vice-president for governmentalrelations for the American Council on Education...
Noriega may have been motivated by greed far more than loyalty to any ideology. While a valued point man for the CIA, he enjoyed close relations with Cuban Leader Fidel Castro. Blandon says he personally witnessed a 1984 meeting in Havana at which Castro mediated a dispute between Noriega and the leaders of a major Colombian drug cartel. According to Blandon, as well as U.S. Customs investigators, Noriega has supplied Cuba with U.S. intelligence and high-technology goods. In Central America, the general has sold weapons both to Nicaragua's anti-Communist contras and to Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador...
...Master of the Universe, according to Wolfe the pharse-maker. Masters of the Universe are the ultimate egotists, absorbed in the pursuit of a power that supercedes dollar values. In a way that differentiates him from his old-line WASP father, McCoy is a patrician with an all-consuming greed. Not merely to be rich, but to be the richest. The most. For as McCoy knows, it's not the money, but the control that he seeks on the trading floor, in his 20-room apartment, in the pied-a-terre of his mistress...
Reports that greed is dead are greatly exaggerated, according to a nationwide survey of college freshmen. Seventy-six percent of 210,000 students declared that being financially well off is an "essential" or "very important goal" in their lives. Just 39% placed a premium on creating a "meaningful philosophy of life." That was the lowest proportion in the 22-year history of the annual survey, sponsored by the American Council on Education and the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA...
JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING Forget Wall Street. For a really savage study of greed and relentless connivance, see Claude Berri's double- decker movie. His tale of fate-haunted French peasants is also that movie rarity: tragedy on the grand and classic scale...