Word: greed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crippling the nation's road-building industry. Says NAPA President John Gray: "We felt this was overkill." But Joseph Welsch, inspector general of the U.S. Transportation Department, says a reliable rule of thumb is that "rigged bids cost taxpayers about 15% more than unrigged bids," a margin of greed that could add up to hundreds of millions of dollars in probable contractor overcharges in the past few years alone...
...come up with the Big Story. Despite so much interoffice sex that it is a wonder the paper ever comes out, Weinraub's tale sprints to its end as smoothly as a web offset press. Bylines is too gussied up with made-for-television passion and greed to resemble life at a big-city newspaper. The unlikely competition for the naked and dead editor's job does, however, neatly bear out the second rule of journalism: you're only as good as your last story...
...Greens arrived triumphantly in parliament five months ago with a vision of themselves as the antiparty party, a model of selflessness and dedication in a political system they considered debased by cynical powerbrokers and greed. Since then, they have been discovering that the purity they preach is painfully hard to put into practice...
...things were going. He was taken aback. He rubbed his eyes and wiped his glasses. Seeing the largest vat of red ink in federal history, he gulped "none of us really understands what's going with these numbers." As he staggered back, he wondered "do you realize the greed coming to the forefront? The hogs are really feeding." Fearing that he would be called stupid or, worse, unfit for his job, he told his findings to no one, except a friend who happened to be a reporter freelancing for a major magazine. When the swindlers asked, "What do you think...
...Corbusier once observed, New York City appears as landlocked as Moscow. Through a combination of greed and neglect, the cityscape has steadily obscured the drama of ocean, port and rivers. Until last week, there was not one public place on the island of Manhattan where people could sit in sheltered and stimulating surroundings, to eat, drink and enjoy the life of their waterfront...