Word: greed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carlo Maria Giulini said, "It is no fabricated legend. In my entire experience of the theater, I know of no artist like Maria Callas." Her private life, much of it conducted in public, was also the stuff of legend. She had the iron whim and comet-like will, the greed, love and hatred of someone strong enough to overturn the laws of life...
Until I read your article, I had assumed that Brooke Shields [Feb. 9] was a victim of her mother's greed. Since she is surviving with such poise, and is enjoying herself as well, more power...
Middle class people were, as the slogan went, mad as hell, and the right-wing addressed their legitimate complaints, while the left ignored them, or accused them of greed. Consequently, the left had little to offer except more of the same--a clearly unsatisfactory status quo. "Like the respectable antiwar protestor of Jules Feiffer's 1966 cartoon who carried a sign calling for A Little Less Bombing, the cautious liberals of the late seventies were for a little less cutting. It was not a slogan likely to bring anybody to the barricades...
...hateful without really knowing me. It affects everything I do, from writing checks in a supermarket to making reservations at a restaurant." Adds Ron, 36, an attorney with a public interest law firm: "The reaction has only demonstrated the need to challenge head-on this xenophobia and greed...
...Nations in 1776, capitalism has been generally extolled as the most efficient economic system or as the philosophy most compatible with political liberty. But even capitalism's most ardent supporters have had trouble answering charges that it is morally bankrupt because it appeals to people's greed for profit. Forcefully confronting these charges, Gilder maintains that the entrepreneur is not a selfish accumulator of wealth but the creative figure in society, who uses his talents and capital in risky ventures that have no guarantee of reward. The businessman's sacrifices and courage are the engines of economic...