Word: greed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, it is promotion--in part. Why should the idea of starting an art collection in Vegas seem so odd? Basically because Las Vegas--the Disney World of terminal public greed--is a city in which every cultural citation is fake, so that the real thing feels out of place. The city is built on simulation, quotation, weird unconvincing displacements, in which cultural icons are endlessly but never convincingly quoted. Here is the Luxor Hotel, that huge silly pyramid with its plaster Anubises and fiber-glass Amon-Ras, its cavernous interior housing a facsimile of the Manhattan skyline. Here, under...
...landlord does not have to have a good reason or a just cause to evict," he said. "Greed is in control...
Chain's death in a skirmish to save a 40-ft. redwood was murder, plain, pure and simple. A compassionate person was sacrificed at the altar of human greed. What incredible arrogance and ignorance. But these two qualities do seem to go hand in hand, don't they? CAROLYN AND DAVE CANOY Salem...
...most gravely ill should be first in line for scarce medical resources--sounds like the essence of fairness. Yet the new organ-allocation system has ignited one of the most bitter and divisive controversies to hit U.S. medicine in decades. Hospital officials are charging one another with dishonesty and greed. Old friends have become enemies. Says Mayo Clinic health-policy analyst Roger Evans: "It's shocking. There is so much personal animosity, it's almost hatred, and it will only deteriorate over time...
...system could actually drive up costs. Sicker patients require more expensive follow-up care than average patients do, and they have a lower overall chance of survival. Officials at major transplant centers also point out that they are not the only ones open to charges of greed: small transplant centers would probably lose patients and income under the new regulations...