Word: greed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ababa. With the help of a former official, he set out on a series of surreptitious expeditions to uncover the deposed Emperor's courtiers and persuade them to tell him about Haile Selassie's way of life and mode of rule. They confided tales of unbounded slavishness, greed, corruption and palace intrigue...
Critics accuse the chains of overcharging patients or of skimming the cream from the patient population. At a hospital industry conference in April, Metzenbaum snapped at a group of private hospital officials: "You and your organizations have taken the side of private greed." According to the Senator, for-profit hospitals in Florida charge an average of 14.3% more than nonprofit ones...
...Even 30 years ago, youngsters did their best to escape the Midwestern farming community as soon as they graduated from high school. John Marshall Tanner, fiftyish, was no exception. Returning now for the first time, the former football hero finds the town of Chaldea little changed: as ever, skulduggery, greed and hypocrisy thrive...
...concerned with tightening the strands of his narrative than with slashing away at the twin hypocrisies of Celluloid City and oil country. From Libya to Egypt to Iran his film makers go, struggling to shore up their collapsing finances, and everywhere they encounter nothing but fanaticism, ignorance, treachery and greed. Readers interested in a balanced view of the Arab world should look elsewhere. If life is not fair, in the words of a recent President none too esteemed by Grenier's narrator, satire is even less...
...their Mercedes. But they had to pick up their phones some time, and the result is a film now being shot in New York City that borrows heavily from the 1978 thriller The Silent Partner. In this movie, which doesn't even have a title yet-how about Greed 2?-Newton-John plays a bank teller, and Travolta is a two-bit robber who uses blond tresses as a disguise. "You have to work yourself into it," says Travolta, "but I like myself as a blond...