Word: greed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bennett's secret was that he was able to marry two powerful but seemingly contradictory human instincts: greed and charity. Those who threw in with New Era were so anxious to give, and to get, that they overlooked the obvious. But then greed and charity have met before. Charles Ponzi's biggest extravagance was a $100,000 donation he made to an orphanage...
...surgeon's defenders argue that whatever mistakes he made, they were not the product of greed. Though Najarian earned as much as $600,000 a year and liked to fly first class, he shunned ostentatious cars and sent all his children to Minneapolis public schools. "My father could have made millions of dollars a year as a surgeon for the rich and famous," observes Jon Najarian, the eldest of four sons. "But it was never his goal to make millions of dollars. It was his goal to help people...
...literary colleagues. One was novelist Julian Barnes, who had a good reason: he's the husband of Kavanagh, Amis' former agent. Another was A.S. Byatt, whose novel Possession was published by Jonathan Cape, who also brought out Amis' previous novels. "I don't see why I should subsidize his greed," said Byatt, "simply because he has a divorce to pay for and has just had all his teeth redone." The dental work in question was done in the U.S. at a cost of $30,000, an expense that did little to endear Amis to a nation where a stiff upper...
...Dartboard will readily admit that premeds don't have a monopoly on unethical behavior. The pre-law and pre-investment banking students are pretty evil too. But at least they're honest about being sleazy. Unlike the pre-meds, they don't try to hide their sliminess and greed behind a veneer of altruism...
...rhetoric now is exactly the same as it was during the Vietnam War-driven by greed and self-interest...