Word: greed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been a kind person, but Mother Teresa was no visionary. She spent a lifetime comforting the dying castoffs of humanity's inability to come to terms with the need to stabilize population growth. Sadly, she often castigated those who promoted family planning. Overpopulation is literally greed personified, and if it is not confronted, all living things will suffer dire consequences. Every day thousands of children die as a result of unsustainable population growth. This is no time to create saints of people who cannot understand this harsh reality. BILL ISBISTER, Director Too Many People...Too Little Earth! Aloha...
Charles (Anthony Hopkins) is rich beyond the dreams of greed--his dreams, anyway. Other people may have other ideas. Take Robert (Alec Baldwin), a fashion photographer who seems way too chummy with Charles' supermodel wife (Elle Macpherson). On a photo shoot in the Great White North, the two men--Robert with strength and youth, Charles with loads of book learning--fly off in a small plane to an even remoter location. "So," Charles asks Robert, "how are you planning to kill me off?" Seconds later, the plane crashes...
...believe the majority of Americans think the UPS strike settlement is a victory for the American worker and a defeat for corporate greed [BUSINESS, Sept. 1]. As a small-business owner, I can assure you the winner is not the American worker. The stockholders of UPS will make sure that the company's return on investment is not hurt and will do so by raising prices and reducing costs. The losers will be all of us, since we will pay more for the freight on practically everything we buy. The losers are also those UPS workers who will be laid...
...ALAS! GREED NEVER DIES
...that marriage to Dodi, a man routinely described as a foreign playboy, would have been a public-relations blunder for Diana and a badly needed plus for them. For once it would make their tweedy rectitude seem appealing to the British public. When compared to the chaotic sequence of greed and blundering that took Diana's life, the thought of a well-organized conspiracy would be a comfort...