Word: greed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says. "People are down and out, I suppose. Life isn't peachy keen and wonderful. Punk is for people who do and don't think. It's for kids who find total American life boring. I suppose it's motivated by the same things that motivate everything else--greed and lust and all that. I don't know. This is life in the Cynical Eighties. Maybe it hasn't changed...
...propaganda, we must firmly oppose bourgeois liberalism, that is, publicity that favors taking the capitalist road." He continued, "We exert ourselves for socialism not only because socialism provides conditions for faster development of the forces of production than capitalism but also because only socialism can eliminate the greed, corruption and injustice that are inherent in capitalism...
...Need and greed also figured prominently in the sixth week of the Los Angeles espionage trial of Svetlana Ogorodnikov, 35, and her husband Nikolay, 52. Richard W. Miller, 48, the first FBI agent ever accused of espionage, admitted to having been sexually involved with Svetlana but denied on the witness stand that serious financial straits moved him to pass on classified information to the Russian emigres. Miller admitted that he bounced checks, cheated his wife's uncle on a business deal, pocketed a $113 Social Security check from his wife's grandmother, sold FBI information to a private investigator...
...clouds of praise from England, Germany, Canada and Australia, may do just as well. True, the sex this time around is considerably muted. But moods have changed over the past 20 years, and Vizinczey has cannily kept pace. The prime aphrodisiacs of the ^ '80s seem to be money and greed, and An Innocent Millionaire offers a spellbinding combination of both...
...assail reporters as too skeptical toward government, Pravda lambastes London's journalists from the left, as tame toadies of deceitful politicians. The handful of reporters in the play who show glimmers of decency are hounded out of the trade or nullified by their editors or derailed by their own greed ^ and ambition. In the climax of the plot, the forces of virtue, somewhat tarnished themselves, are gulled into printing a libel that undoes their chances of stopping an evil publisher. Like too many journalists, these dubious heroes simply believe what people tell them and thus are easily misled...