Word: greed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with portions allotted to the poor and needy. Global relief agencies now make it possible to sponsor a sacrifice in places where food supplies are desperately low. Sacrifice teaches a person to give to the greater community at a cost to the individual. It works to counter feelings of greed. At the same time, sacrifice takes us away from a materialistic "market-mentality" in which one only gives things away in exchange for other goods. Sacrifice adds to society a fruitful element of benevolence, and it is a step towards greater economic justice...
...audience wanted to hear what the Administration officials had to say, the American media widely broadcast the protests in 60-second sound bites. I live close to Saddam's borders, and he worries me very much. He is clearly irrational, irresponsible and dangerous. He is driven only by greed and impulse and has no regard for humanity. That was Albright's message, and it was the truth. DANA SAUR Bucharest...
...economy revived, but an outsize share of the benefit seemed to flow to Wall Street. Mergers proliferated wildly, mostly, it seemed, for the enrichment of a few financial manipulators--novelist Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe. Moralists bemoaned what they saw as a sanctification of greed--not only in the U.S. but also in Margaret Thatcher's Britain, Helmut Kohl's West Germany and, of all places, Red China. But unlike in the irrationally exuberant 1920s, disaster did not strike. Though stocks fell even faster on Oct. 19, 1987, than they had in 1929, they bounced back higher than...
...many of the building's windows signs reading "No Greed" are displayed. A passerby explains, "When the owners paid off their lease from the state, they decided to raise the rents up to market levels, causing a lot of controversy. They're just trying to upscale the area." Another South End dweller tells a similar version of the "No Greed" story. "They're snootifying the area," he says. "They want to make it too nice for us, so they can kick...
There will be no one left but the greed-heads...