Word: greed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annoying that greed can ruin a great thing, as it did last year in baseball. But this fact does not mean that the fan should suddenly desert a sport that has brought him or her years of excitement...
Gifford says such tactics are necessary to counter-balance the greed of developers. The advantage that the fund, which is supported by private contributions, holds over developers is that its only significant expense is legal fees...
Film noir is more than a lighting style. It's a seedy, cynical world view: people are motivated by greed, stupidity and sexual avarice. Director John Dahl gets it all right in his mean, hilarious tale of a drifter (Nicolas Cage) mistaken for a contract killer. The title town is off all the moral maps, and so -- deliriously, invigoratingly -- is this lowbrow, low-budget assault...
...vary Marx's formulation slightly, history repeats itself -- the first time as an enchanting evening of song, the second time as an example of extreme bad taste and lazy greed. What was wonderful in Rome in 1990 was awful in L.A. as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras sight-read their way through arias and show tunes on a set that included a waterfall. And no, the Brindisi from La Traviata -- the sequel's intended Nessun dorma -- did not fly to the top of the charts...
...supervisory -- or "root" -- level, and installed a program that fired off E-mail messages every few seconds. Adding intrigue to insult, the message turned out to be a manifesto that railed against "capitalist pig" corporations and accused those companies of turning the Internet into an "overflowing cesspool of greed." It was signed by something called the Internet Liberation Front, and it ended like this: "Just a friendly warning corporate America; we have already stolen your proprietary source code. We have already pillaged your million dollar research data. And if you would like to avoid financial ruin, get the ((expletive deleted...