Word: greed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience with a level look annealed by years of prostitution before her stardom as a comic actress. And it would be difficult to imagine a more sympathic portrait of a minor writer than his study of Giuseppe Baretti, shortsightedly scrutinizing a book inches from his eye with the greed of a man devouring an orange. In Reynolds' intimate portraits, the aura of classical make-believe becomes an ironical virtue (it is, after all, hard to take altogether seriously a title like Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces...
...fortune that Marcos, his family and cronies command. The cache only confirmed much of what Salonga had already unearthed among the personal effects the Marcoses abandoned in Manila more than a month ago. But he was outraged nonetheless. "I am shocked," he said. "I cannot imagine this kind of greed...
...inquiry by a three-member panel implicated two Cabinet members in drug smuggling and nearly toppled the administration of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling. Commented the Miami Herald in an editorial: "The panel portrays a country haunted by cocaine abuse, a police force riddled with corruption, lawyers perverted by greed and a government tainted by widespread influence peddling...
...cousin in Birmingham, one thief drove a stolen 1986 Buick Skylark / from a dealer's lot in Atlanta to Johnny's. He got $700, and Johnny got his name and telephone number. Says Charles Jordan, the Birmingham police sergeant who helped direct the operation: "After a while, greed takes over wisdom...
...this salient fact of inner rot based on pure egotism and greed which prompted the critical studies group to begin their assault on what the Law School had become. The intellectual issues are now completely obscured in personality and rancor. The root cause was never an ideological one but rather the monetization of the faculty in its drive for money, fame, and notoriety. Let us put things in their proper perspective. Benito Rakower, Ed.D...