Word: greed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Legislators are now more aware of what she described as Harvard's particular brand of "non-commitment, non-participation, and greed...
...addition to the ever present greed and the lust for special advantage, there are a number of reasons for increased deception. The general relaxation of moral codes is doubtless one. Another is the steadily growing pressure for personal achievement in an increasingly competitive world. The incentive to cheat is heightened by the fact that society is more and more an aggregate of strangers dealing impersonally with each other. Finally, there is the snowballing impression that every body must be cheating...
...press. That is what happens when you fall foul of Irish reviewers. No people in Western history, perhaps, had more of a reputation for mayhem and brutishness. Their longships ranged from Greenland to Byzantium and Kiev; they reached America 500 years before Columbus; and virtually everywhere they went, their greed and implacable cruelty stank in the nostrils of their victims...
...Even so, Hoffman maintains that he has not sold out, as some former radicals accuse ex-Yippie Jerry Rubin of doing. Rubin now works as a financial analyst on Wall Street. Said Hoffman: "The idealism of the '60s that went sour, neurosis in the '70s, greed in the '80s-that didn't happen...
After a brutal heat wave, Billygate, Iran and other insanities, there is nothing so refreshing as a tad of honest lust, greed, incest and vicious moneygrubbing à la Dallas [Aug. 11]. J.R. Ewing has restored my faith in escapist...